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An enthusiast blogger published annotated die shots of Intel Panther Lake-H CPU: 16-core mobile processor with 12 Xe3 clusters and two Thunderbolt 5 ports examined.
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Intel Chairman Frank Yeary retires, Craig Barrat to become the new chairman of the Board of Directors
The man who tried to split Intel retires from the board of directors.
