Six months after Lip-Bu Tan’s started his quest to show round struggling Intel, the semiconductor large has introduced a significant {hardware} improve.
On Thursday, Intel unveiled a brand new processor, codenamed Panther Lake. This marks the following technology of the corporate’s Intel Core Extremely processor household and is the primary chip constructed utilizing Intel’s 18A semiconductor course of.
The processors are anticipated to start transport later this yr and are being produced at Intel’s Chandler, Arizona, Fab 52 facility, which got here on-line in 2024.
“We’re coming into an thrilling new period of computing, made attainable by nice leaps ahead in semiconductor expertise that may form the long run for many years to return,” Tan stated in an organization press launch. “Our next-gen compute platforms, mixed with our modern course of expertise, manufacturing, and superior packaging capabilities, are catalysts for innovation throughout our enterprise as we construct a brand new Intel.”
Individually, Intel additionally previewed its Xeon 6+, codenamed Clearwater Forest, which is the corporate’s first 18A-based server processor. Intel predicts this may launch within the first half of 2026.
That is the corporate’s largest manufacturing announcement since Tan took over as Intel’s CEO in March. In his first few weeks, Tan made clear he would refocus the corporate on its core companies and restore its engineering-first tradition.
The announcement additionally emphasizes the 18A semiconductor’s ties to the U.S. The corporate’s press launch highlighted that that is essentially the most superior chip manufacturing course of produced domestically.
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“The USA has all the time been residence to Intel’s most superior R&D, product design, and manufacturing — and we’re proud to construct on this legacy as we increase our home operations and produce new improvements to the market,” Tan stated within the launch.
The U.S. authorities took a ten% fairness stake in Intel in August simply weeks after Tan and President Donald Trump met on the White Home to debate how Intel and the federal government might work collectively to deliver semiconductor manufacturing again to the U.S.
Trendster reached out to Intel for extra info.
