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Intel Foundry’s second-quarter performance marks a meaningful improvement in execution, but it does not yet settle the question that will define the company’s manufacturing strategy: can Intel become a trusted, large-scale supplier for chip companies beyond Intel itself? The numbers show...

Intel Foundry says it has begun shipping a subset of Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” processors made with ASML’s High NA EUV lithography on selected Intel 18A layers—the first claimed high-volume commercial logic shipment using the next generation of EUV tools. As reported by...

Intel may manufacture most of the compute tiles for its forthcoming Nova Lake-S desktop processors on its own 18A process rather than relying primarily on TSMC’s 2nm production, according to a new report cited by TweakTown and other outlets. The reported change follows an improvement in Intel...

SMIC’s N+3 process in Huawei’s Kirin 9030 reportedly uses a 32.5 nm minimum local metal pitch, narrower than the 36 nm minimum metal pitch found in shipping Intel Panther Lake CPUs on Intel 18A, according to SemiAnalysis’ teardown published in June 2026. That is the kind of comparison that...

WashingtonExec named David Guffey, Intel Corp.’s director for U.S. Special Operations Command and intelligence community accounts, to its Top DOW Execs to Watch in 2026 list for his work moving AI-at-the-edge capabilities into defense missions through partnerships and emerging Intel...

Microsoft and Intel are at the center of a new, potentially game‑changing rumor: industry reporting says Intel Foundry has been tapped to manufacture Microsoft’s next‑generation Maia AI accelerator on the company’s advanced Intel 18A / 18A‑P process — a development that would validate Intel’s...

Intel’s new Fab 52 in Chandler, Arizona, is not just another factory — it’s the physical embodiment of a high-stakes bet that the United States can reassert leadership in advanced semiconductor manufacturing, and that Intel can reclaim technological momentum by making the planet’s most advanced...