Бум по полупроводникам! 🔥 По данным Reuters, новый гендиректор Intel изучает революционный шаг: вместо работы с каждым заказчиком отдельно — перейти к глобальному контрактному производству. Это как открыть фабрику мирового уровня для всех желающих! 🏭 Цель — переманить гигантов вроде Nvidia у TSMC и Samsung. Пока Intel скромничает в комментариях, но инсайдеры шепчут: переговоры с ключевыми игроками уже идут. Если всё сработает — это перевернёт рынок чипмейкинга и даст Intel шанс вернуть корону. Мощности Penang и Arizona готовы? 👀 Ждём деталей!
178263278 story Intel’s New CEO Explores Big Shift In Chip Manufacturing Business (reuters.com) 6 Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:02PM from the risky-business dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Intel’s new chief executive is exploring a big change to its contract manufacturing business to win major customers, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a potentially expensive shift from his predecessor’s plans. The new strategy for Intel’s foundry business would mean offering outside customers a newer generation of technology , the people said. That next-generation chipmaking process, analysts believe, will be more competitive against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co in trying to land major customers such as Apple or Nvidia. Since taking the company’s helm in March , CEO Lip-Bu Tan has moved fast to cut costs and find a new path to revive the ailing U.S. chipmaker. By June, he started voicing that a manufacturing process known as 18A, in which prior CEO Pat Gelsinger had invested heavily, was losing its appeal to new customers, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. To put aside external sales of 18A and its variant 18A-P, manufacturing processes that have cost Intel billions of dollars to develop, the company would have to take a write-off, one of the people familiar with the matter said. Industry analysts contacted by Reuters said such a charge could amount to a loss of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars. Intel declined to comment on such «hypothetical scenarios or market speculation.» It said the lead customer for 18A has long been Intel itself, and it aims to ramp production of its «Panther Lake» laptop chips later in 2025, which it called the most advanced processors ever designed and manufactured in the United States. Persuading outside clients to use Intel’s factories remains key to its future. As its 18A fabrication process faced delays, rival TSMC’s N2 technology has been on track for production. Tan’s preliminary answer to this challenge: focus more resources on 14A, a next-generation chipmaking process where Intel expects to have advantages over Taiwan’s TSMC, the two sources said. The move is part of a play for big customers like Apple and Nvidia, which currently pay TSMC to manufacture their chips. ← Related Links → Nintendo Locked Down the Switch 2’s USB-C Port, Broke Third-Party Docking Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan As CEO Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Says Company Will Spin Off Non-Core Units Intel Will Lay Off 15% To 20% of Its Factory Workers, Memo Says Submission: Intel’s New CEO Explores Big Shift In Chip Manufacturing Business Hacker With ‘Political Agenda’ Stole Data From Columbia, University Says
