After months of rumours, leaks, and tidbits from the company itself, Intel finally announced its Panther Lake CPUs at its regular Technology Tour event, this time in Arizona, US. It was an appropriate location to do so, as the US state is also home to multiple Intel foundries, and Fab 52 is one of two that operate its newest process node: Intel 18A.
This particular semiconductor chip production method is responsible for making the key tile, or chiplet, that lies at the heart of every Panther Lake processor. But where Intel's previous tiled architectures, Meteor Lake (MTL) and Arrow Lake (ARL), sported one design apiece, Panther Lake or PTL for short, comes in three varieties.
