Another one bites the dust. According to a new report from Reuters, Intel's customer foundry business could largely give up on its all-important 18A node. Instead, Intel will retain 18A as an internal node for chips like its upcoming Panther Lake laptop CPU and shift the focus to promoting its 14A for external customers.
If true, this follows Intel's wholesale cancellation of the 20A node, along with limited roll outs of Intel 4 and Intel 3 (Intel has never and likely will never make any consumer CPUs on those nodes). As things stand, you have to go back to 10 nm, rebranded Intel 7, to find a node that the company used across its full portfolio of enterprise and consumer chips. In the meantime, Intel has been paying Taiwanese foundry TSMC to make CPUs like its Lunar Lake laptop and Arrow Lake desktop chips.
