Intel Restructures Manufacturing Business (reuters.com) 8
Intel says its manufacturing business will work like a separate unit and will begin to generate a margin, but gave no clear timeline on when it will start scaling up, sending the chipmaker's shares down about 5%. From a report: The company also did not name a new external customer for the business as part of its foundry services, a key element of Intel's turnaround plans wherein it will offer its manufacturing services to other companies including its competitors. Intel's internal business units will now have a customer-supplier relationship with the manufacturing business, Chief Financial Officer David Zinsner said on an investor call. Based on that model, Intel will be the second largest foundry next year with manufacturing revenue of more than $20 billion, he said.
Maybe Intel Can Make AMD Chips. (Score:2)
It's one way to learn some trade secrets.
Re:Maybe Intel Can Make AMD Chips. (Score:5, Insightful)
I think it would be pretty tough to reverse engineer mask data to figure out how circuit designs are working. Especially for large digital circuits, even a gate-level netlist would be pretty difficult to make much sense of. I'm not saying it's totally impossible, but if they could create an AI system that extracts branch prediction algorithms from the mask data of their competitor's CPU, then they wouldn't be in second place right now...
Knowing things like die size, schedule, and manufacturing quantities are the more valuable info. It's because of those secrets that AMD is very unlikely to use Intel for manufacturing anytime soon.
Re: (Score:1)
And on top of that why would AMD give up the certainty they have with TSMC, for all the question marks they would get from Intel. It would have to be some sweet deal, maybe Intel offered to pay AMD to manufacture their chips.
Restructuring (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Until recently, templates for those silly non-plain-text-on-terminal stuff were standardized on Intel Clear aka Clear Sans. This was a nice, legible, high-quality font; open sourced and used elsewhere eg. by FirefoxOS. I packaged it for Debian, and pondered abusing my membership in the Debian fonts team to push it as a default -- ultimately, Quicksand was chosen instead. Both are genuinely good, making the choice mostly a matter of taste, with Quicksand being fancier, Clear Sans somewhat more conservativ
Freescale (Score:3)
Isn't this exactly what Motorola tried to do when they were circling the drain? Except they had other business lines to fall back on to slow their descent into the sewer.
Translation (Score:5, Interesting)
To me the translation is:
Once we get and skim all the free Dollars from the US Gov due to the Inflation Reduction Act, we will spin of US manufacturing into a separate company, pulling out the cash and let it fail.
Once spun off, the cash from that business will be used for stock by-back.
So they are probably fucked for another 5 years (Score:2)
At the very least. Too arrogant, screwed over their customers for too long, though they were invincible. As a result, they may well be dying now.