Six months after Lip-Bu Tan started his quest to show round struggling Intel, the semiconductor large has introduced a significant {hardware} improve.
On Thursday, Intel unveiled a new processor, codenamed Panther Lake. This marks the subsequent 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 delivery later this 12 months and are being produced at Intel’s Chandler, Arizona, Fab 52 facility, which got here on-line in 2025.
“We’re getting into an thrilling new period of computing, made attainable by nice leaps ahead in semiconductor expertise that may form the longer term for many years to return,” Tan mentioned 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 it will 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 probably the most superior chip manufacturing course of produced domestically.
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“The US has all the time been house 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 mentioned 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 at the White House to debate how Intel and the federal government might work collectively to convey semiconductor manufacturing again to the U.S.
TechCrunch reached out to Intel for extra info.
This piece has been up to date to appropriate when Fab 52 opened.