www.eetimes.com, Oct. 09, 2025 –
Intel has today announced its latest generation of client and server processors, Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest, and has said these have been in production and ready for rollout in volume early next year on its latest 18A process technology at its Fab 52 state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona.
The big news is that this is a story of massive disaggregation, use of gate-all-around (GAA) and back-side power delivery technologies, utilizing Intel’s advanced packaging technologies, with the manufacturing ready 18A technology. Intel called it a move from system on chip to a system of chips using its RibbonFET and PowerVia technologies manufactured in 18A (...)
The products announced are the Intel Core Ultra series 3 processors (code-named Panther Lake) the Intel Xeon 6+ (code-named Clearwater Forest), both built on Intel 18A. Intel said both Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest, as well as multiple generations of products built on Intel 18A, are being manufactured at Fab 52, Intel’s new, state-of-the-art factory in Chandler, Arizona.
Details were revealed to media and analysts at the Intel Tech Tour event in Arizona a couple of weeks ago, where we were also shown into the facilities at Fab 52 at the 700-acre plus Ocotillo site, which is also the home of Fab 12, 32, 42, plus the future Fab 62. The Fab 52 facility is fully dedicated to Intel 18A manufacturing, and Intel emphasized the fact that 18A is the world’s most advanced process technology researched, developed, and manufactured on American soil.