Intel has quietly expanded its processor lineup with the introduction of Wildcat Lake, a third-generation Core processor family that arrived alongside the company’s CES 2026 announcements.

Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 'Panther Lake' CPUs are the first AI PC processors built on the new Intel 18A process, and made in the USA.

AMD’s Ryzen CPU announcements this year fall firmly into the latter camp—these are all gently tweaked variants of chips that launched in 2024 and 2025.

Core counts for the processors range from four cores in the lower-end Ryzen AI 5 430 to 10 cores in the Ryzen AI 9 465. That CPU has a clock speed up to 5.0GHz and 34MB of cache. It sports AMD Radeon 890M integrated graphics and can hit 55 TOPS with the onboard NPU.

AMD shows off its world-first 2nm EPYC 'Venice' CPU with Zen 6 cores, and the Instinct MI455X AI accelerator for its Helios AI racks.

These systems mark both a hardware and branding reset for Dell: a return to the XPS name paired with Intel's latest mobile architecture, high-refresh OLED panels,

AMD used its CES 2026 stage time to connect two major data center themes: next-generation EPYC server CPUs and rack-scale AI infrastructure built around Instinct accelerators.