Intel reportedly sought an investment from rival chip maker TSMC.
The conversation, first reported At the Wall Street Journal, there was undoubtedly an uncomfortable bill that had seen Intel’s relationship with the Taiwanese foundry giant.
Intel’s claim on fame is that, unlike most of its competition, it designs And produces chips. Or at least it was like that. In recent years, Intel has outsourced the production of some CPUs, GPUs and network kit to TSMC. Chipzilla continues to make his own Xeon family from Datacenter -Processors.
As the more work sent to TSMC, Intel also tried to make a foundrybiz to compete with the Taiwanese company. That expensive company is still to land a large customer and is therefore assumed that it has contributed to the abrupt CEO Pat Gelsinger “pension”Last December.
Intel has developed and implemented a new production process, called 18A, that it will use some products that it is currently outsourced to TSMC. The client of the Panther Lake Chips Intel is planning to deliver this year, and Clearwater Forest E-Core Xeons in 2026 will both use 18A.
But Intel will not be done with TSMC for a while.
We already know that the next-gen Nova Lake processors of the company will use both internal and external watering service services. We also know that one of the Notebook SOCs has been developed under a co-design initiative There will be some TSMC -Silicium on board between Intel and Nvidia.
But Intel not only tries to curb his dependence on TSMC, it actively tries to convince other chip makers that they are better off using his upcoming 14A process technology instead of asking the Taiwanese company to produce their chips.
Despite the ambition of Intel to compete stronger with TSMC, the Taiwanese company can still have reason to invest in Chipzilla – if only to show that it was trying to save a competitor instead of crushing it.
On the other hand, even if Intel Foundry succeeds, TSMC will still be the largest chip maker in the world and his supervisors may be less inclined to investigate the activities.
There is certainly a precedent for an investment of this nature. You may remember in the late 90s when Microsoft Apple saved for an amount of $ 150 million.
The reported interviews only come one day after a Bloomberg report claimed Chipzilla had approached Apple to throw in a few dollars in exchange for some ordinary shares.
Intel has attracted a flurry of investments for the past two months. In August, Softbank earned a $ 2 billion stake About the success of the Chip Biz. Less than a week later, Uncle Sam broken $ 11 billion in Intel shares, equal to 10 percent of the company, in exchange for $ 8.9 billion in chips act financing.
NVIDIA is the latest tech giant who throws his weight behind Intel and plays $ 5 billion in the ailing chip maker as part of a co-design initiative cement Intel’s position in the data center while the GPU gigantic mention is assigned to the integrated graphic arena. ®
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