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Intel CEO embraces its 18A node for external customers as 18A-P gets 'inbound interest' — company cites increasing yields
Mar. 09, 2026 –
But Intel is not out of the woods with its 18A node.
By Anton Shilov, Tom'sHardware
When Lip-Bu Tan came to Intel last year, he considered stopping the promotion of the company's 18A (1.8nm-class) fabrication technology among potential external customers and making it yet another internal-only node, as he did not believe the manufacturing process made a lot of sense for external clients. Less than a year later, he seems to have changed his mind about the prospects of the fabrication process to a large degree because some external customers expressed interest in 18A-P, a performance-enhanced version of 18A. Yet, Intel admits that 18A continues to suffer from process variability.
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