Intel Unveils Its 1.8-Nanometer Panther Lake Processor

10 October, 2025

Developed under Intel’s Israeli R&D leadership, the 1.8-nanometer chip combines Intel and NVIDIA processors in a hybrid architecture built from three distinct silicon tiles

[Photo: Intel’s Panther Lake processor, produced at the company’s Oregon fab. Credit: Intel]

Intel has unveiled Panther Lake, its next-generation personal-computing architecture built for the AI era. The new processors, which will launch under the Intel Core Ultra brand, are the company’s first high-volume products manufactured using the Intel 18A process — representing a node size of just 1.8 nanometers.
This advanced production technology introduces two major innovations: RibbonFET transistors, offering faster switching speeds, and PowerVia, a backside power-delivery network that separates power and signal routing layers. Together, these improvements boost performance and transistor density across the chip.

While Panther Lake was a global engineering effort, Intel’s Israeli development team played a leading role, with several hundred engineers collaborating closely with Intel’s Oregon facility.
According to Zohar Tzeva, Intel’s Panther Lake project manager, the team combined two complementary CPU architectures: Lunar Lake, designed in Israel and optimized for power efficiency, and Arrow Lake, introduced earlier in 2025 to deliver high performance for demanding workloads.

A Modular Multi-Chip Design

The new processor adopts a multi-chip module structure built around three main silicon tiles.
The Compute Tile, designed entirely in Israel and fabricated using the 18A process, packs roughly three billion transistors and integrates up to 16 CPU cores alongside an AI engine capable of up to 180 TOPS (trillion operations per second)—enabling complex AI models to run directly on laptops and desktops.
A separate GPU tile, based on Intel’s new Xe3 architecture, is produced by TSMC, while a control tile handles system-level connectivity, supporting interfaces such as PCIe, Wi-Fi, Thunderbolt, and Bluetooth.

From Doubt to Delivery

“Many in the industry doubted Intel’s ability to bring a sub-2 nanometer processor to market,” said Tzeva. “But we proved it can be done. Hundreds of thousands of Panther Lake chips have already been shipped to customers, and we’ll move to full-scale production by the end of 2025. The first computers powered by Panther Lake will hit the market in early 2025.”

Intel declined to specify which processors will underpin its recently announced partnership with NVIDIA. However, the timing suggests Panther Lake will play a central role.

Intel + NVIDIA: A New Era for Laptops

Roughly three weeks ago, Intel and NVIDIA signed a sweeping technology and business collaboration agreement. One of its most intriguing aspects concerns the laptop market: Intel will produce and sell x86-based SoCs that integrate NVIDIA’s RTX GPUs.
Given Panther Lake’s modular design and its positioning for high-performance, energy-efficient laptops, analysts believe it will serve as the foundation for this joint platform—marking NVIDIA’s first-ever direct entry into the $150 billion-a-year PC market.

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