Intel Is at a Crossroads
…What's the Value of Intel's IDM Status? Intel is the only remaining integrated device manufacturer (IDM) with a cutting-edge foundry business dedicated almost exclusively to its own products. From…
Europe once held more leading-edge manufacturing than it does today. There's no single reason for this. GlobalFoundries has several manufacturing plants in Dresden, but these are older factories producing on legacy nodes. Companies such as STMicroelectronics, Infineon, and NXP are still major industry players, but they fab on older nodes or outsource to TSMC for leading-edge capability. According to a recent report from a German think tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (New Responsibility Foundation), the EU's efforts to build a 2nm leading-edge fab is likely to fail for several reasons. First,
Taiwan Dismisses EU Effort to Build Leading Edge Semiconductor Capacity…What's the Value of Intel's IDM Status? Intel is the only remaining integrated device manufacturer (IDM) with a cutting-edge foundry business dedicated almost exclusively to its own products. From…
…The entire economic structure that was supposed to support both Intel and the major foundries as they moved to next-generation manufacturing technologies, such as 450mm wafers, extreme ultraviolet lithography, and 20nm…
Intel believes it has a path forward for building silicon qubits on conventional foundry technology. If it's right, we might see markedly better scaling and higher performance in the years to…
…This is unsurprising -- but what Intel dismisses as "just a defect density" issue is, in fact, profoundly at the heart of the problems facing modern semiconductor manufacturing. How defect densities wreck cost…
…TSMC's messaging practices haven't changed, but Intel's have. Once upon a time, "volume manufacturing" was something Intel announced a month or two before products were available for purchase. Now…
…AMD's decision to spin off its manufacturing arm was driven partly by the steeply rising costs of keeping up with Intel; the foundry alliance between Samsung, IBM, and GlobalFoundries is another…
…Intel, AMD Reportedly Fighting for Capacity at TSMC We’ve Never Seen Intel Struggle Like This Intel Announces 7nm Delays, May Use External Foundries For Future CPUs
…While small compared with the $20B - $100B capital expenditures planned by Intel and TSMC, it's unusual for a second-tier foundry to invest in aggressively expanding a mature node. There's…
…For years, we've known that a foundry responsible for manufacturing a processor could theoretically make changes to the architecture that would create backdoors , weaken security, or compromise the design. Such methods…
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