Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger finds no reason for customers to shift from x86 to ARM

Hinting that Intel will continue to design and make chips using x86 architecture, and minimising the possibilities of seeing Intel-branded ARM chips anytime soon, Gelsinger said, “If you must displace an incumbent architecture, you have to do so with defined significant advantages. Lunar Lake and Panther Lake are very compelling products, and I haven’t seen anything that would displace that momentum and our market share remains very high.”

Indicating Intel’s satisfaction in being the foundry partner to ARM––as the company plans on becoming the world’s second-largest foundry service provider by the end of the decade––Gelsinger said, “The partnership Intel has forged with ARM is dramatically more powerful and beneficial to both companies than I could ever imagine when I took this job.”

For the upcoming Intel Lunar Lake chips, the company has partnered with TSMC. In it, the main die area is fabricated using TSMC’s cutting-edge N3B architecture, which according to Intel, was the best technology available while designing Lunar Lake chips.

Intel has also almost confirmed that its next-generation Panther Lake processor lineup will use an in-house Intel 18A process.