Intel Debuts 18A Chips With Panther Lake CPUs for Laptops

Photo credit: Intel Corporation. Article by Josh Gulick. ExtremeTech – October 10, 2025.

The last node in Intel’s famed “five nodes in four years” plan is here. On Thursday, Intel officially unveiled the node’s first wave of processors, code-named Panther Lake. The company has faced a number of challenges during the past several years and saw a dramatic change in leadership. Now, the brand-new 18A process is at the center of Intel’s fortune. […]

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