Intel unveiled the Xeon 600 line with 12–86 cores for workstations and Core Ultra 300 vPro for business laptops

Intel launches a new line of workstations – Xeon 600

What it looks like: New models of 11 chips, of which 5 are available in retail packaging. Platform supports Intel vPro (for business) and the new W890 chipset. Memory ECC‑DDR up to 4 TB, 8 channels, speed up to 8000 MT/s. PCIe up to 128 lanes of PCIe 5.0. Architecture Redwood Cove – only high‑performance P‑cores with Hyper‑Threading. Core features Intel AMX, FP16, AVX‑512.

> Tests have not been published yet, but the company promises a multi‑threaded performance increase of up to 61 % and single‑threaded up to 9 % compared to Sapphire Rapids‑WS.

Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) – business version
Specification Description
Memory capacity up to 96 GB LPDDR5 PCIe 12 lanes PCIe 5.0 Processor chip Intel 18A – Cougar Cove (high‑performance) + Darkmont (power‑efficient). AI accelerator Intel NPU 5 Graphics Xe3 with the ability to configure up to 12 cores.

> These models are more compact than client Core Ultra Series 3 but retain the same specifications. The main difference is the presence of vPro technologies (security, monitoring, administration), which is important for work PCs.

Comparison with competitors
- Core Ultra X7 358H shows better overall performance compared to AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375 and significantly outperforms it in graphics.

- In Geekbench AI 1.6 tests Intel claims noticeably higher AI performance.

Prices
Product Price range Xeon 600 from $499 to $7,699 Core Ultra Series 3 vPro prices have not been disclosed yet (including laptops)

Thus, Intel expands its workstation portfolio with new processors featuring increased multi‑threaded performance, extensive memory scalability and PCIe 5 support, as well as specialized AI accelerators and graphics. This makes them competitive in both traditional tasks and modern AI and gaming scenarios.