Intel unveils new processor powered by its 18A semiconductor tech 

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

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

The processors are expected to statesman shipping aboriginal 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 epoch of computing, made imaginable by large leaps guardant successful semiconductor exertion that volition signifier the aboriginal for decades to come,” Tan said successful a institution property release. “Our next-gen compute platforms, combined with our leading-edge process technology, manufacturing, and precocious packaging capabilities, are catalysts for innovation crossed our concern arsenic we physique a caller Intel.”

Separately, Intel besides previewed its Xeon 6+, codenamed Clearwater Forest, which is the company’s archetypal 18A-based server processor. Intel predicts this volition motorboat successful the archetypal fractional of 2026.

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

The announcement besides emphasizes the 18A semiconductor’s ties to the U.S. The company’s property merchandise highlighted that this is the 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 arrogant to physique connected this bequest arsenic we grow our home operations and bring caller innovations to the market,” Tan said successful the release.

The U.S. authorities took a 10% equity stake successful Intel successful August conscionable weeks aft Tan and President Donald Trump met astatine the White House to sermon however Intel and the authorities could enactment unneurotic to bring semiconductor manufacturing backmost to the U.S.

TechCrunch reached retired to Intel for much information.