The shipments reportedly occurred last month, but the manifests were recently uncovered by leaker x86deadandback.

He suspects that two listings for 500W A0 chips correspond to Clearwater Forest processors.

Clearwater Forest and the laptop-focusedPanther LakeCPUs mark the debut of Intel’s 18A node.

Intel Nova Lake and Clearwater Forest CPU samples appear in leaked shipping manifests

Both Clearwater Forest and Panther Lake are anticipated to launch later this year.

Meanwhile, Nova Lake is expected to follow Panther Lake, potentially arriving in 2026.

Mass production of TSMC’s 2nm chips is set to begin in late 2025.

Other competitors, including Samsung and Rapidus, are also working on similar technologies.