Intel Will Make Chips for Qualcomm at New U.S.-Based Foundry Business
A Qualcomm Snapdragon processor in a display case. Courtesy of the company
Intel said on Monday its factories will start building chips for San Diego’s Qualcomm as it expands a new foundry business to catch rivals such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung Electronics by 2025.
Amazon will be another new customer for the foundry chip business, said Intel, which for decades held the lead in technology for manufacturing the smallest, fastest computing chips.
But Intel has lost that lead to TSMC and Samsung, whose manufacturing services have helped Intel’s rivals Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia produce chips that outperform Intel’s. Qualcomm, AMD and Nvidia design chips but have no foundries themselves.
Intel said on Monday it expects to regain its lead by 2025 and described five sets of chipmaking technologies it will roll out over the next four years.
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