Michelle Johnston Holthaus and David Zinsner, co-CEOs at Intel, confirmed that Panther Lake is in the hands of eight customers who've successfully achieved power-on status with ES0 silicon ...

Holthaus revealed that eight foundry customers have powered on ES0 (likely "Engineering Sample 0") chips built on the 18A node, signaling significant progress compared to six months ago.

It is not unusual for the partners to have a long lead time. These early test samples, internally referred to as ES0, mark an important milestone in development. Eight manufacturers were able to, ...