Monday, April 20th 2026 Intel Foundry Tool Orders Surge 50% Year Over Year as Demand Booms by AleksandarK Today, 13:23 Discuss (0 ) Intel Foundry seems to be on a roll, as the company has reportedly increased its semiconductor tool orders by 50% compared to last year. This is a significant expansion, especially considering that Intel currently has no official new clients for its Foundry business. It's an exciting development, suggesting that Intel's CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, wouldn't invest in significantly expanding its foundry capacity without concrete deals in sight. Last week, UBS Group noted that new foundry commitments are expected this fall, and we can see the supply chain starting to ramp up to accommodate new customers. According to Anue media, many firms in semiconductor manufacturing are expected to be part of this ramp-up. The most well-known is ASML, but there are countless suppliers involved in both front-end and back-end foundry work. This includes companies like KINK Company, which provides inspection, laser processing, and other tools, as well as firms like E&R Engineering, which supplies diamond disks to flatten wafer surfaces. In reality, semiconductor plants are much more complex than just acquiring EUV machines. Intel is already a major ASML customer for High-NA EUV scanners, which are boosting Intel's expansion for the 14A node. However, many additional tools for chemical treatment, inspection, metrology, and other processes are also needed for Intel to manufacture its 18A, 18A-P, and 18A-PT nodes, while also ramping up the 14A node. We have already reported that there have been numerous rumors about Apple, AMD, NVIDIA, Google, and Broadcom considering utilizing Intel's silicon manufacturing, including the 18A, 18A-P, and 18A-PT nodes, as well as the upcoming 14A node. Apple is rumored to be planning to manufacture some of its M-Series "Apple Silicon" laptop processors in 2027 using the 18A-P node, while Google might leverage Intel's EMIB and Foveros 3D advanced packaging technology for some of its TPU designs. Sources: Anue, via TrendForce Related News Tags: 14A 18A 18A-P 18A-PT 2027 3D ASML EMIB EUV Foundry Foveros High-NA Intel Intel Foundry laser Lip-Bu Tan scanner semiconductor manufacturing Silicon silicon manufacturing supply chain Jul 24th 2025 Intel "Nova Lake-S" Core Ultra 3, Ultra 5, Ultra 7, and Ultra 9 Core Configurations Surface (118) Sep 18th 2025 NVIDIA Buys $5B Worth of Intel, RTX iGPUs Coming to x86, Shares up 25% (256) Apr 16th 2026 Intel Foundry Nears Major Customer Wins as Apple, AMD, Google, and NVIDIA Weigh Deals (14) Oct 26th 2025 Intel's Advanced Packaging Could Be America's Answer to Silicon Dominance (25) Jan 23rd 2026 Intel Core Ultra Series 4 "Nova Lake" Processors Launch in Late-2026 (62) Jan 10th 2026 Intel Core Ultra X9 388H "Panther Lake" iGPU Doubles AMD "Strix Point" Performance in Cyberpunk 2077 (98) Apr 7th 2026 Intel Joins Elon Musk's "Terafab" Project for Innovative Semiconductor Manufacturing (22) Dec 18th 2025 NVIDIA and AMD Explore Intel 14A Node, Apple and Broadcom Considering Intel EMIB Packaging (6) Dec 2nd 2025 Intel 14A Node Trials Signal Confidence From Early Customers (9) Dec 24th 2025 Intel Envisions 16 Compute Dies and 24 HBM5 Modules in a Single Package (17) Add your own on Intel Foundry Tool Orders Surge 50% Year Over Year as Demand Booms There are no yet.
