Intel to disclose tech particulars on forthcoming PC chip, sources say

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The firm performed hours of technical briefings and manufacturing facility excursions in Arizona for trade analysts final week on the brand new Panther Lake microarchitecture, together with detailed explanations of the graphics and central processor cores and its media engine, in keeping with the sources. Intel revealed a redesigned AI engine and the corporate’s effectivity and efficiency processor cores, which have been redesigned for the 18A manufacturing course of.

Intel executives have mentioned the Panther Lake chips will likely be accessible early in 2026, in keeping with the sources. The new chips use 30% much less power than the prior era, and its graphics and central processors will obtain a 50% enhance of their capacity to crunch knowledge in some conditions, in keeping with a second supply briefed on the chips.

The technical briefings performed final week for a gaggle of analysts and journalists underscored the significance of Panther Lake’s success to Intel, which has struggled to fabricate the cutting-edge chips.

An Intel spokesperson mentioned the corporate holds technical briefings within the autumn most years on varied matters however declined to remark additional.

Last week, as a part of the briefings, Intel performed a tour for reporters and trade analysts of its factories in Arizona, together with one known as Fab 52, the folks mentioned. Intel broke floor on Fab 52 in 2021 as a part of former CEO Pat Gelsinger’s multibillion-dollar world enlargement plan to compete with TSMC within the contract manufacturing enterprise.

Fab 52 homes Intel’s 18A in-house manufacturing course of, which features a new transistor design and a technique of delivering power to the chip extra effectively. The tour aimed to reveal Intel’s manufacturing prowess and showcase the chip manufacturing facility, or fab, that it’ll use for high-volume manufacturing of Panther Lake chips. Reuters didn’t attend this tour.

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