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Intel does not support a fabless semiconductor business model. Lots of other chips are necessary besides CPUs.
by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Intel does not support a fabless semiconductor business model. Lots of other chips are necessary besides CPUs.
- davidf18 7y agoPerhaps Intel could spin off a separate company that has a fabless business model.
- radicsge 7y agoIn case of war it can be forced to, the question is whether it is competitive with TSMC in medium/long run?
- agoodthrowaway 7y agoReally not that easy to release a PDK and get the industry familiar with it particularly for anything that is high speed analog.
- yvdriess 7y agoA modern chip design-to-production pipeline takes roughly five years, 2 years if you crunch it and dot try anything fancy. And yes moving from TSMC/GoFo production nodes to Intel would require significant redesign.
- kingosticks 7y agoAre you saying I can't make a random chip using Intel's fabs?
- hinkley 7y ago"Random" has some connotations that probably aren't helpful. He's saying you can't make arbitrary chips at the Intel fabs. So you could end up with a proverbial car with no wheels. Looks cool but it ain't going anywhere.
- kingosticks 7y agoI just meant if I had a design I wanted to make could I make it with Intel in the same way I could with a TSMC partner like Broadcom. My previous experience is that you could, we had them come deliver us a presentation some years ago. Their offering was no good at the time as they didn't have some of the IP macros available in the time frame we needed. So I find the parent comment confusing, unless things have changed.
- hinkley 7y agoHonestly that was news to me, but I'm only paying enough attention to this space to make a stock pick or two. I think I'd appreciate a [citation needed] as well.
- kingosticks 7y agoLooks like it's still a thing: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/overview.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/overview.htm...