Intel Announces Intel 18A customers: Boeing and Northrop Grumman
CTOnews.com July 20, Intel this week announced plans to adopt Intel 18A (1.8nm process) of two third-party customers, Boeing and Northrop Grumman.
Figure Source: Intel Intel 18A (1.8nm) process is one of Intel's newly named processes. In 2020, Intel proposed Intel 7, Intel 4, Intel 3 and Intel 20A, Intel 18A and other advanced processes, and plans to launch one generation a year.
Intel 4, Intel 3 and Intel 20A, Intel 18A four-generation advanced processes are developed by two teams at the same time. Among them, Intel 20A will be mass produced in the first half of 2024 as planned, and has reached a cooperation with Qualcomm.
The Intel 18A process was originally planned for mass production in 2025, but it is now advancing faster than expected and will be mass produced half a year ahead of schedule in the second half of 2024.
CTOnews.com reported in March this year that Wang Rui, senior vice president and chairman of Intel China, said that Intel 7 has been mass produced, Intel 4 will be launched in the second half of this year and will be used in core processors (Meter Lake). Intel 3 is moving forward as planned, and the test chips of Intel 20A (2nm) and Intel 18A (1.8nm) have been released.
About Northrop Grumman:
Northrop Grumman, or Northrop Grumman for short, is a multinational aerospace and defense technology company headquartered in the United States. Founded in 1994 and formed after Northrop acquired Grumman, Northrop is the fourth largest military manufacturer and the largest radar manufacturer in the world. Fortune 500ranked the 96th largest company in the United States in 2020.
About Boeing:
Boeing is the largest manufacturer of aerospace aircraft in the world, developing, producing and selling fixed-wing aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft, carrier rockets, missiles and artificial satellites. After the acquisition of Macdonald Douglas in 1997, it became the only company in the United States to manufacture civil aviation wide-body airliners, and together with European Airbus are the only two large civil aircraft manufacturers in the world, sharing the market with each other.
