The new address of Intel is studying deep changes in its chips manufacturing processes To attract several technology clients First level, according to Reuters. If they finally make the decision to move forward with the changes, they will stop using completely certain semiconductor manufacturing technologies that have been using a long time.
Last June, the company’s management came to the conclusion that one of the manufacturing processes in which Pat Gels entrusted blindly to redirect the company’s march, known as 18a, was losing attractiveness for its customers.
D facing the external sales of the 18A manufacturing processes and their 18A-P variant, in whose Intel development it has invested billions of dollars, would be a disaster for the company, which would suffer an impact of hundreds or billions in losses. In addition, the main client of this process has always been Intel itself. Therefore, it is vital to convince third clients to use Intel factories for the future. But its 18A process has suffered delays.
Given this, Lip-bu tan, CEO of Intelhas responded in principle by allocating more resources to the company’s next -generation chips manufacturing process, the 14th, with which the company expects to have an advantage with respect to the manufacturing technologies of its TSMC rival.
This step, in addition, is part of a strategy to attract customers such as Apple and Nvidia, who are currently TSMC clients, and manufacture their chips. But the changes you want to make so is probable that you are not staying here. In the next meeting of the Board of Directors of Intel, he wants to deal with various issues related to this, among which is to stop selling its process technology 18a to new customers.
Of course, it is likely that the Board does not make a decision in this regard until the Board to celebrate the next fall, due to the complexity of the measure and the huge amount of money that would be at stake. Meanwhile, Intel aims to reach a high level of production of its chips before the end of the year using 18A process technology. After a while the production of chips would arrive with this technology for external customers.
In the midst of all these doubts, they try to get the process technology 14 to get great contracts, and they could decide to keep their current plans for the progress of 18A. Intel is adapting the 14A technology to the needs of customers to try to succeed, but will use the 18A chip manufacturing technology for customers with whom you already have an agreement to do so, regardless of the decision made by the Board.
Also will continue to use the process in cases where there were already plans to use itas with Intel chips already designed to use 18A technology, and it has already been agreed to manufacture a relatively low amount of chips that had already committed to Amazon and Microsoft.
