Panther Lake on track for 2025 production
Intel has achieved a new milestone with its most advanced node that will be used for client and server products.
Intel has announced that its leading products on the 18A node, including Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest, have left the fab and successfully powered on. The company confirmed that these chips have booted an operating system and achieved these milestones in less than two quarters after tape-out.
This means that silicon development is on track, and Intel is confident that production for these products will begin in 2025 (no confirmation on release date, though). The 18A node has also been deployed by an external customer, with first chips for this customer expected to tape out next year. These products will feature RibbonFET and PowerVIA technologies, which are available to all customers.
Source: Intel
Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest, lead products on Intel 18A, are out of the fab, powered on, have booted operating systems, and are on track to start production next year. Additionally, Intel 18A has brought together two critical innovations to enable customers to make leaps…
— Pat Gelsinger (@PGelsinger) August 6, 2024
Based on the limited information available, the Panther Lake series will feature up to 16 CPU cores and up to 12 Xe3 graphics cores. This architecture is primarily designed for mobile devices, with no desktop variants mentioned. According to leaked roadmaps , Intel OEM partners, such as Dell, plan to introduce the first products using this architecture in 2026.
The Clearwater Forest is a next-gen Xeon series designed for data centers. This product is the successor to the soon-to-be-released Sierra Forest, which is Intel’s first server architecture featuring an entirely Efficient core design. Clearwater Forest will incorporate Darkmont cores, which will succeed the Skymont-based Sierra architecture.
Source: Intel