Intel unveils New Processor Powered by its 18a semiconductor Tech 

Six months aft Lip-Bu Tan’s began his quest to move astir struggling Intel, nan semiconductor elephantine has announced a awesome hardware upgrade.

On Thursday, Intel unveiled a caller processor, codenamed Panther Lake. This marks nan adjacent procreation of nan company’s Intel Core Ultra processor family and is nan first spot built utilizing Intel’s 18A semiconductor process.

The processors are expected to statesman shipping later this twelvemonth and are being produced astatine Intel’s Chandler, Arizona, Fab 52 facility, which came online successful 2024.

“We are entering an breathtaking caller era of computing, made imaginable by awesome leaps guardant successful semiconductor exertion that will style nan early for decades to come,” Tan said successful a institution property release. “Our next-gen compute platforms, mixed pinch our leading-edge process technology, manufacturing, and precocious packaging capabilities, are catalysts for invention crossed our business arsenic we build a caller Intel.”

Separately, Intel besides previewed its Xeon 6+, codenamed Clearwater Forest, which is nan company’s first 18A-based server processor. Intel predicts this will motorboat successful nan first half of 2026.

This is nan company’s largest manufacturing announcement since Tan took complete arsenic Intel’s CEO successful March. In his first fewer weeks, Tan made clear he would refocus nan institution connected its halfway businesses and reconstruct its engineering-first culture.

The announcement besides emphasizes nan 18A semiconductor’s ties to nan U.S. The company’s property merchandise highlighted that this is nan astir precocious spot manufacturing process produced domestically.

“The United States has ever been location to Intel’s astir precocious R&D, merchandise design, and manufacturing — and we are proud to build connected this bequest arsenic we grow our home operations and bring caller innovations to nan market,” Tan said successful nan release.

The U.S. authorities took a 10% equity stake successful Intel successful August conscionable weeks aft Tan and President Donald Trump met astatine nan White House to talk really Intel and nan authorities could activity together to bring semiconductor manufacturing backmost to nan U.S.

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