Intel has announced that its lead products based on the Intel 18A process technology — Panther Lake, an AI PC client processor, and Clearwater Forest, a server processor — have powered on and booted operating systems. The company also announced that the first external customer is expected to tape out on Intel 18A in the first half of next year. Through ecosystem electronic design automation (EDA) and IP tools and process flow, it offers RibbonFET and PowerVia to all customers through Intel 18A. With access to the Intel 18A PDK 1.0 last month, the company’s EDA and IP partners are updating tools and design flows to enable external foundry customers to begin their Intel 18A chip designs. RibbonFET and PowerVia are core Intel 18A technologies that enable greater processor scale and efficiency to drive AI computing, it said.

Source: The Hindu August 08, 2024 00:33 UTC