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Intel's Panther Lake chips enter mass production this year.
Built on Intel's long-awaited 18A process technology.
Intel hopes Panther Lake revives its consumer market success.
Intel just announced its latest lineup of client processors, the Core Ultra Series 3, codenamed "Panther Lake," its first large-scale chips made with the new 18A manufacturing process.
At a recent preview event in Arizona, the semiconductor giant hosted press and industry analysts (myself included), showing off its new multi-billion-dollar manufacturing fab and first glimpses of the new chips, all while positioning the moment as a turning point for the company.
"We're building a new Intel," Sachin Katti, the company's senior VP, proclaimed at the beginning of his keynote speech -- a theme repeated multiple times during the event.
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