High-Res Die Shots Unpack Intel Panther Lake's 18A Tiles In Stunning Detail
French-language hardware site Hardware & Co has some brilliant die shots of most of Intel's latest processors in a blog entry that was actually posted up back in July but only spotted recently in the broader international hardware community by well-known enthusiast InstLatX64. We're only going to take a look at one of the die shots here, but you should grab your favorite translator and head over to the site with the link at the bottom because there are lots of cool pictures.
Incredibly, Hardware & Co says it got these die shots at Computex 2026 solely using the author Nicolas' photography skills. Intel brought uncut wafers of all of its newest chips to the show, and these wafers have the silicon structures of the processors fully visible. Very carefully, it's possible to use a regular camera with a macro lens to take detailed die shots, and that's...
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