Lunar Lake is a chiplet-based processor. The majority of these chiplets, which Intel calls tiles, are not manufactured by Intel Foundry—the company's manufacturing division. Rather, they're built be TSMC, the world's largest foundry. The reason for that decision, Intel CEO's says, is simply that TSMC was better.
"Simply put, Lunar Lake picked TSMC as a better process technology at that point in time," Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says at Computex 2024. "And so that's why we ended up using more of it."
