Computing · January 2026

Intel 18A Panther Lake

Intel's first high-volume chip on its 18A gate-all-around process.

Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) was the first high-volume product on Intel 18A, which pairs gate-all-around transistors with backside power delivery. It put a leading-edge American fab process back into mass production.

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What it built on 2

2 nm process 2025
Gate-all-around transistor 2022

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Transistors per microprocessor Latest: 58.2B transistors (2021) Source: Our World in Data

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