AMD Fires Back at Intel 'Ancient Silicon' Jab: Panther Lake Isn't Handheld-Ready (And Here's the Proof)

AMD just called Intel's Panther Lake chips 'too much baggage' for handhelds, picking up the gauntlet after Intel mocked its Z2 APUs as 'ancient silicon' — and the lab test results might surprise you.

AMD's senior VP Rahul Tikoo criticized Intel's Panther Lake chips as 'too much baggage' for handheld PCs, countering Intel's claim that AMD's Z2 APUs use 'ancient silicon'.

You can’t just use mobile silicon and put it in the handheld. You can, but the handheld or the consoles, they care about high graphics. They don’t care about as much compute, and they don’t care about the I/O.

AMD lab tests showed Intel's Lunar Lake chips outperformed Ryzen AI 300 series in battery life under DC Mode but sacrificed performance: 'The Core i7 performs like a Core i3.'

Intel's Xe3 Arc B390 GPU in Panther Lake claims parity with RTX 4050 on 1080p, while AMD updated its Strix Halo APUs with RDNA3+ iGPU in 8/12-core models. Only one Z2 model uses Zen 2, while others use AMD's latest Zen 5 architecture.