Semiconductor companies Intel y TSMC They are apparently negotiating the start -up of a joint companyaccording to The Information. The objective of this entity would be to lay the foundations for this company to use the chips manufacturing plants that Intel has, and TSMC would have 20% of its total titles.
It is unknown which companies will have the remaining 80%, but earlier this year TSMC, in the thread of the first rumors of the creation of this company, filed conversations with several chip designers without manufacturing facilities that are based in the United States. Among them AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia and Qualcomm.
The issue of these conversations was apparently related to investment in this joint company, since it would have several manufacturing plants in the United States. Of course, both Nvidia and a member of the TSMC direction denied that these conversations had produced.
Instead of financing your participation in the company with money, yes, what Taiwanese will do will share some of its chip manufacturing practices with various groups of Intel employees, in addition to training them. Apparently, the Trump administration is aware of these negotiations, which approves so that Intel manages to turn the crisis that is going through. But not everyone is satisfied with the creation of this Joint Venture, since Intel’s managers are concerned that they will derive in mass dismissals.
For now it is unknown what paper would play exactly TSMC regarding Intel American manufacturing plants. Many are only prepared for the manufacture of processors for Intel. Nor is TSMC’s intention clear to own 20% of Intel Foundry, especially for what he would mean for his own investment plans. These go to invest 165 million dollars in their Arizona Fab 21 plant to make chips for their partners, among which Apple is.
Despite the aforementioned lagoons, the News for the creation of this company have helped Intel’s Price to soften its fall. After the news of these negotiations was known, their actions uploaded almost 7% in the middle of a day of chaos marked by heavy decreases in the Dow Jones values after the ads of Trump’s tariffs. Meanwhile, TSMC titles fell about 6%.
