By Max A. Cherney<\/p>\n
Jan 5 (Reuters) – Intel is set to launch Panther Lake, its new AI chip for laptops<\/a>, on Monday at \u200bthe CES trade show in Las Vegas, as the company seeks \u200cto reassure investors about the first product made using its next-generation manufacturing process called 18A.<\/p>\n Jim Johnson, \u200csenior vice president and general manager of Intel’s PC group, is expected to give details about the chip in a presentation starting at 6 p.m. EST (2300 GMT). The new chips feature a new transistor design and way to deliver \u2060power to the chip.<\/p>\n Intel’s prior-generation \u200cLunar Lake chips were largely made by TSMC. The stakes for Intel are high – the company is making its first \u200dhigh-volume product with 18A, and hopes to reclaim market share it has lost to Advanced Micro Devices.<\/p>\n The company said in October that graphics and central processors integrated in Panther \u200bLake deliver 50% faster performance than its previous generation of chips, Lunar \u200cLake.<\/p>\n Intel has struggled with the yield, or the number of good chips per silicon wafer, for the Panther Lake processors, Reuters reported last year. Intel executives have said its yields are improving monthly and will pave the way for the launch this year.<\/p>\n For its part, AMD plans to give a CES \u2060keynote address at 9:30 p.m. EST (0230 GMT \u200bon Tuesday). CEO Lisa Su will likely launch \u200bnew generations of PC chips that are geared for AI and graphics.<\/p>\n AMD announced a multibillion-dollar deal with OpenAI<\/a> for its next-generation \u200dMI400 chips, some \u2060of which the companies plan to deploy this year. The deal with the ChatGPT maker is expected to generate tens of billions of dollars \u2060in revenue for the chip designer.<\/p>\n