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I haven't heard anything about Intel selling ARM manufacturers fab time, even on obsolete processes. AFAIK Intel has not really been in the foundry business unt
by jsnell 13y ago
I haven't heard anything about Intel selling ARM manufacturers fab time, even on obsolete processes. AFAIK Intel has not really been in the foundry business until very recently. And even that has been with extremely high margin products that don't compete with Intel, such as FPGAs.
Even if they were fabbing some ARM chip, I don't think it could be one of the big players. For example Qualcomm, Nvidia, and TI use TSMC. Apple and Samsung use Samsung's fabs.
- bryanlarsen 13y agohttp://www.anandtech.com/show/7473/intel-to-fab-altera-fpgas-with-arm-ip http://www.anandtech.com/show/7473/intel-to-fab-altera-fpgas... You're mostly right about it not being one of the big players. Altera is a big player in the FPGA market, but not the ARM market. The chips in question cost thousands of dollars; the ARM core is a very small portion of the chip.