Intel eyes TSMC deal to revive foundry business

Intel is trying to stay alive in the chip game, and now it’s knocking on TSMC’s ￰0￱ to the Wall Street Journal , the ￰1￱ has reached out to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company about a possible partnership or cash ￰2￱ talks are still private, but people familiar with the situation allegedly say both companies have been going back and forth on what a deal might look ￰3￱ push comes right after Bloomberg reported that Intel had also approached Apple, asking if the iPhone maker would consider tossing in some ￰4￱ say Intel is offering common stock in ￰5￱ new developments follow the U. S. government’s decision to buy a 10% stake in Intel, worth $11 billion, using $8.9 billion in CHIPS Act ￰6￱ and SoftBank throw money into Intel Intel’s scramble for outside help didn’t start with the ￰7￱ to WSJ , the outreach began even before President Trump got involved last ￰8￱ once Washington bought in, the pace picked up ￰9￱ injected $2 billion into Intel back in ￰10￱ followed shortly after, dropping $5 billion to grab a 4% ￰11￱ the center of this storm is Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

He’s been hustling to line up partners as the company tries to recover from years of missed targets and losing ground to ￰12￱ was once the top name in chips, but now it’s trailing behind Nvidia and AMD in the AI arms ￰13￱ market doesn’t wait, and neither do ￰14￱ knows this, and that’s why it’s trying to make big moves ￰15￱ has spent billions trying to build up its contract manufacturing unit, aiming to take on TSMC ￰16￱ the results so far have been ￰17￱ few outside clients have come onboard, and the business hasn’t posed any real threat to TSMC’s ￰18￱ in April, The Information reported that Intel and TSMC were talking about a joint venture, with TSMC possibly buying a 20% stake in a new ￰19￱ discussions didn’t go far, but now they’re back, and more serious this ￰20￱ mixes reliance on TSMC with efforts to rival it Even though Intel is trying to pull away from TSMC, the two are still tied together in more ways than one.

Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake processors are expected to use both its own foundries and some from TSMC. There’s also the co-design project between Intel and Nvidia, any notebook chips that come out of that will likely include some TSMC ￰21￱ makes things ￰22￱ one hand, Intel wants other companies to stop using TSMC and start using its upcoming 14A process tech ￰23￱ the other hand, Intel still depends on TSMC to produce important parts of its own ￰24￱ it’s ￰25￱ there’s a chance TSMC could see value in ￰26￱ Intel fails, regulators might start eyeing TSMC more closely for being too ￰27￱ TSMC helps Intel survive, it looks less like a monopoly and more like a responsible player.

“There’s a benefit in being seen as a lifeline,” one source ￰28￱ whole situation is starting to look a lot like 1997, when Microsoft handed Apple $150 million just to keep it ￰29￱ might be repeating; only this time, it’s chips, not ￰30￱ Intel’s been calling everyone who might write a ￰31￱ smartest crypto minds already read our ￰32￱ in? Join them .