Industry-Leading Research at Intel Foundry
Research drives our long-term competitiveness and differentiation. To address the toughest challenges facing semiconductor customers in the AI era, we make continuous investments in materials, transistor architectures, packaging, and manufacturing. Discover the future unfolding now at Intel Foundry.
Explore Our Cutting-Edge Research
From breakthrough process and packaging technologies to innovations powering high-performance computing and advanced communications, our more than 70,000 active patent assets span every layer of the technology stack. Discover how Intel Foundry is driving progress in compute-intensive applications like AI and HPC, enabling more efficient electronics, and laying the groundwork for the next generation of computing systems.
Logic
We have introduced several pioneering innovations in transistor architecture and interconnect technologies to advance Moore's Law toward the angstrom era.
System Technology Element Research
Chipmakers are shifting to system-centric strategies to meet the performance, efficiency, thermal, and reliability demands of today's workloads. Our R&D focuses on optimizing architecture, design, processes, controls, automation, and data systems for system-level targets.
Heterogeneous Integration
We have driven significant innovations in heterogeneous integration by developing throughput breakthroughs, materials innovation, and system-level packaging advances to optimize cost and performance for advanced, high-density applications.
Packaging & Test
We are developing new ways to unlock larger, more powerful chiplet-based designs with improved cost, performance, and power efficiency. Our work focuses on new materials and advanced packaging technologies to meet the most demanding solution requirements.
Quantum
We continue to use our high-volume silicon manufacturing expertise to research scalable quantum hardware and control systems. Silicon spin qubits lay the groundwork for quantum practicality while our innovative cryogenic control chip reduces wiring bottlenecks.
Integrated Photonics
After years of R&D, we were the first to mass produce integrated photonics modules for data centers. We continue to develop advancements in integrating lasers and optics into silicon using standard chip manufacturing.
Breakthrough with GaN Chiplet Technology
Researchers at Intel Foundry have demonstrated a first-of-its-kind GaN chiplet technology built on 300 mm GaN-on-silicon wafers, marking a significant leap forward in semiconductor design.