Lenovo launches first Wildcat Lake ThinkPads with up to 32 GB DDR5

Lenovo is further expanding its already extensive lineup of commercial ThinkPad laptops with a new low-cost option. The Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 8 and Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 4, the entry-level options of the line, are going to be available with a new CPU series that has not been used in ThinkPads before: Intel Wildcat Lake.

Intel's more affordable 18A laptop series, the Intel Core Series 3, is now listed at Lenovo's PSREF database. Both the 14-inch laptop ThinkPad E14 and the 16-inch laptop ThinkPad E16 will be available with four different Intel Wildcat Lake chips: The Intel Core 5 315, Core 5 320, Core 5 330 and Core 7 350.

Compared to the already existing Intel Panther Lake options, these more affordable Wildcat Lake CPUs cut down the number of CPU cores to six, with two big P cores and four small E cores. Plus, they have a smaller iGPU unit with just two Xe3 cores.

Additionally, all Core Series 3 variants of the Lenovo ThinkPad E14 G8 and Lenovo ThinkPad E16 G4 will include only a single SO-DIMM slot, since Wildcat Lake only supports single-channel memory. The maximum amount of RAM that these units will ship with is 32 GB.

Since they are already listed in the PSREF, the Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 8 and E16 Gen 4 with Intel Wildcat Lake should be available soon.