What just happened? Intel is canceling its 20A process node for Foundry customers and reallocating resources to the 18A node, which is scheduled for production in 2025.

Intel this week also revealed that it will use the Xe-LPG iGPU architecture for its Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs, while the Arrow Lake-H laptop processors will come with the newer Xe-LPG+ graphics.

Processors Intel claims 18A, the node Pat bet the company on, is either 25% faster or 38% more efficient than Intel 3. Though that's a node Intel didn't have enough faith in to release for ...