For almost as long as we can remember (okay, about three years), the 18A node has been all-important for Intel. Former CEO Pat Gelsinger said he'd bet the whole company on 18A. Indeed, the first 18A chips are due later this year in the form of intel's next CPU for laptops, Panther Lake. But according to Intel itself, 18A has yet to win any "significant" business from customers.
The comment comes from David Zinsner, Intel's CFO, during a conference in Boston yesterday. "We get test chips, and then some customers fall out of the test chips... So committed volume is not significant right now, for sure," Zinsner is reported by Reuters to have said.
