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Jeremy Laird

Intel says next-gen Panther Lake laptop chips on its new 18A silicon are still on track for later this year but things are more complicated on the desktop

A photograph of Intel's Interim Co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus standing on stage, with a background displaying Panther Lake and Intel 18A.

Intel has been talking numbers this week with the announcement of some reasonably positive financials for the final quarter of 2024 (you can read the full transcript here). With that comes the usual chat around product and official confirmation that the Panther Lake mobile CPU is still due in the second half of 2024 using Intel's all-important new 18A silicon node.

But Intel said 18A wouldn't necessarily win all future CPU designs and also revealed how slowly the company's transition to advanced silicon has been. In 2024, just over 5% of Intel's internal chip manufacturing was on its latest EUV-based nodes.

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