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Hot Chips 2026: Intel details cutting-edge tech in entry-level Wildcat Lake — value-focused 18A chips necessitated UCIe integration

  • Jake Roach--Tom's Hardware UK
  • published date: 2026-08-25 15:45:08 UTC

Intel's Wildcat Lake is competing in the budget laptop market, but it takes a very different approach, leveraging a UCIe interconnect and Intel's latest 18A node.

Intel's Wildcat Lake is unassuming, launching with the message that it was a cutting-edge alternative to the MacBook Neo with Intel's latest node and some trimmings around the edges. Although Wildcat… [+7022 chars]