# 🔧 Intel Foundry Achieves Major Milestones

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**Created:** [August 7, 2024, 6:12am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/intel-foundry-achieves-major-milestones/288487 "2024-08-07T06:12:42Z")\
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**Summary:**

**1. 18A Process Technology Milestones:**

- Intel’s Panther Lake client processor and Clearwater Forest server chip, built on 18A, successfully powered on and booted operating systems.
- Achievements occurred less than two quarters after tape-out.

**2. Advanced Technology and Production Timeline:**

- 18A node features RibbonFET gate-all-around transistors and PowerVia backside power delivery.
- Production is on track for 2025, with Intel releasing the 18A Process Design Kit 1.0 in July.

**3. Industry Impact and Customer Integration:**

- Clearwater Forest will be the first mass-produced chip using RibbonFET, PowerVia, and Foveros Direct 3D packaging.
- Intel expects the first external customer to tape out on 18A in early 2025, with EDA and IP partners updating their tools for the new node.

**Read more at:** [Intel.com](https://intel.com)