Intel’s new 18A chip process is facing serious yield issues, threatening its Panther Lake chip rollout

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Intel’s ambitious plan to reassert itself as a global leader in chip manufacturing and challenge Taiwan’s TSMC is facing renewed turbulence. The company’s long-touted 18A process node, central to its effort to revive high-end semiconductor production in the U.S., has run into significant yield problems. Its most recent setbacks have cast doubt over the viability of its next-generation laptop chip, Panther Lake. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that only a small percentage of Panther...