Chip design company Faraday Technology announced plans to develop the world's first 64-core processor based on the Arm Neoverse architecture, which is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025 and manufactured using the Intel 18A process.Intel18A is equivalent to the 1.8nm level and is regarded as a key node by Intel. On the one hand, it aims to overtake TSMC and regain the throne of the most advanced technology. On the other hand, it will greatly expand the scale of IFS's external foundry business and has already won multiple orders, including a chip for the US Department of Defense.
As early as April 2023, Intel and Arm jointly announced an foundry agreement to use Intel18A to manufacture ArmIP chips.
Faraday’s product seems to be the first publicly announced result, but it should be noted that Faraday does not manufacture chips itself, but only provides designs, which are then customized and produced by customers.
Therefore, it remains to be seen to what extent Intel 18A can be leveraged in this deal.
also,The Intel3 process has also received a number of foundry orders, including a certain cloud data center chip and a certain Ericsson server chip.