Intel launches 125+ new designs for the professional market
Intel reveals its 2026 commercial lineup, featuring Core Ultra Series 3 and Xeon 600 chips designed to power AI, security, and performance for global enterprises.
Intel announced its latest lineup of commercial components on Wednesday. These features will power devices in the enterprise, education, government, and small-business sectors in the coming years.
Having showcased the new offerings to media and analysts at its Intel Pro Day ahead of the launch, the company demonstrated potential use cases for the components. Intel particularly highlighted various media, security, and AI-based functions, some of which are already deployed by certain preliminary partners.
Intel’s professional tier product lineup includes the Core Ultra Series 3 for Business PCs, the Intel vPro Platform, the Intel Arc Pro B-series GPUs, and the Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Processors. The company noted that it has over 125 designs in its portfolio of the different professional sectors it supports.
The new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processor for Business PCs focuses on performance, power efficiency, and battery life. The brand noted that these PCs can provide over 30% faster single and multi-thread performance, up to 30% higher productivity, up to 80% better graphics, and up to 4x AI performance in comparison to four-year-old systems, which denotes the average PC refresh cycle.
The new Intel Arc Pro graphics cards focus on content creation, engineering workloads, and AI reasoning. The 2026 lineup includes the Arc Pro B70 and B65 discrete GPUs. Built on Xe2 architecture, they support up to 32Xe Cores and 32GB VRAM. AI improvements include optimized performance for multi-user and multi-agent workloads, and strong price-to-performance for inference for workstation and edge setups.
Performance benefits on the Arc Pro B70 include up to 2.2x larger context windows, up to 6.2x faster responses in multi-agent and multi-user workloads, and up to 2x tokens per dollar performance, compared to competitor graphics cards.
The Intel vPro Platform 2026 updates include the Intel vPro Certification Program. The brand has collaborated with several partners to certify applications and accessories, which will allow them to connect to devices faster and work more efficiently in the background, reducing CPU load. Intel vPro Intelligence with Device IQ uses AI-powered data to diagnose and resolve device issues, to assist IT staff, and reduce downtime. Intel vPro Fleet Services allows for easier remote access and disaster recovery through a turnkey Software-as-a-Service option, which is set up at the silicon level and is integrated with Microsoft Intune. Intel vPro Security Enhancements adds real-time total storage encryption for Microsoft BitLocker and AI-based threat detection with Intel Threat Detection Technology (DTECT).
The Intel Core Ultra Series 3 and Intel vPro commercial PCs will be available starting March 31, 2026.
The Intel Arc Pro B70 discrete GPUs will be available starting March 25, 2026. The card will be available under Intel branding and partner branding, including ARKN, ASRock,
Gunnir, Maxsun, and Sparkle. Intel’s suggested starting price for the Arc Pro B70 discrete GPUs is $949, while partner pricing will vary based on final model configurations.
The Intel Arc Pro B65 discrete GPUs will be available starting in mid-April 2026. The GPU will be sold through Intel’s AIB partner network in varied models, with pricing based on those configurations.
The Intel Xeon 600 Processors will be available starting March 25, with suggested pricing between $499 to $7,699 spending on the final component configuration.