<story><title>Intel Launches $1B Fund to Build a Foundry Innovation Ecosystem</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-launches-1-billion-fund-build-foundry-innovation-ecosystem.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ThinkBeat</author><text>It is weird to me how the perspective on Intel flipped a while back.&lt;p&gt;For a long time, the discussion was that Intel had failed, failed and failed again to get their next generation fabs operating at acceptable yields that they were a couple of generations behind TSMC.&lt;p&gt;Which was a huge departure from their decades of first or least competitive on fabs.&lt;p&gt;Intel announced they would start having some chips produced by TSMC, 
so they could try and harness benefits of the latest, or the generation
behind latest for their chips.&lt;p&gt;In short Intel was seen as incompetent and could no longer compete with their competitors.    The long Intel domination was sliding away.&lt;p&gt;Then people started worrying about Taiwan. 
Intel got a few billion dollars in a sweet contract with the military, 
building fabs in the US became the major push in tech.&lt;p&gt;Since then, the perspective has been much more positive for Intel and
their role in building domestically.&lt;p&gt;Intels inability to build a latest generation fab has not changed.</text></comment>
<story><title>Intel Launches $1B Fund to Build a Foundry Innovation Ecosystem</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-launches-1-billion-fund-build-foundry-innovation-ecosystem.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ameminator</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think $1 billion dollars is actually enough in this kind of space.&lt;p&gt;Probably the most important factor in Intel&amp;#x27;s success is its (relatively) new CEO&amp;#x27;s ability to fix cultural problems and internal dysfunction that inhibit any technical improvement.&lt;p&gt;At least this is a sign that Intel recognizes this and is reaching out to startups - only time can tell if it works.</text></comment>