<story><title>Intel Talks with TSMC, Samsung to Outsource Some Chip Production</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/intel-talks-with-tsmc-samsung-to-outsource-some-chip-production</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Giving up manufacturing would be terrible. It really feels like Intel is ceding any hope of leadership to focus on milking their IP for cash. That would be incredibly frustrating and sad.&lt;p&gt;I hope it&amp;#x27;s not true or just very limited scope.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dlevine</author><text>Intel has whiffed their 10nm process node to the point where it may never launch in any scale. Their 7nm node is significantly behind schedule. Their only solution in the near-term is to keep increasing the TDP of their chips, which won&amp;#x27;t work for long.&lt;p&gt;This might be their only good option. Sure outsourcing manufacturing is a risk, but it&amp;#x27;s probably one they need to take. They will catch back up if they can get their 7nm node back on track, which isn&amp;#x27;t a given.</text></comment>
<story><title>Intel Talks with TSMC, Samsung to Outsource Some Chip Production</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/intel-talks-with-tsmc-samsung-to-outsource-some-chip-production</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Giving up manufacturing would be terrible. It really feels like Intel is ceding any hope of leadership to focus on milking their IP for cash. That would be incredibly frustrating and sad.&lt;p&gt;I hope it&amp;#x27;s not true or just very limited scope.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alupis</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worked out extremely well for AMD... and recall everyone was saying it would be the end of AMD when they spun off their FAB into Global Foundries.&lt;p&gt;Fabricating, and design are very different businesses.</text></comment>