Late last year, a myriad of Intel manufacturing partners started teasing next-gen "Panther Lake" processor-based devices. In November, GMKtec—a mini PC specialist—took part in a Team Blue-curated 2025 Technology Innovation and Industry Ecology event. Attendees in China witnessed a debuting of the hardware manufacturer's EVO-T2 model. A product placard boasted that the compact desktop system utilized a "Panther Lake H 12Xe3" mobile processor. This past weekend, freshly released GMKtec marketing material confirms that the EVO-T2 will feature Intel's Core Ultra X9 388H APU; presumably in the best available configuration. Up until the new year, Team Blue and involved parties have not publicly confirmed the nomenclature of forthcoming "Panther Lake-H" SKUs.

Officially, GMKtec's most potent Intel CPU-based package was declared worthy of being the company's centerpiece at their CES 2026 booth. The upcoming flagship 16-core Core Ultra X9 388H APU seems to be positioned to take on AMD's best current-gen "Strix Halo" mobile chip: Ryzen AI Max+ 395. According to a past weekend GMKtec Germany blog entry, EVO-T2 demonstration units will be "running AI tools and high-resolution creative software, showcasing real-world performance" at CES 2026. Additionally, company representatives are set to participate in "joint presentations of Intel-powered Edge AI solutions, highlighting the role of Mini PCs in lightweight intelligent computing scenarios." The EVO-T2 is advertised as offering local execution of multimodal generative AI workloads, with "Panther Lake" enabling significantly enhanced on-device AI performance.