Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process

Re:Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process by ryneandal on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:52AM (#25847068)

Well they've nuked consumer Optane (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-kills-off-all-optane...) and sold their NAND business (https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/10/26/intel-sk-hynix-nand-sa...) so that should free up some of their own capacity, right?

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Re:Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process by wtallis on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:12AM (#25847313)

Intel's selling off the NAND fabs and never owned a 3D XPoint fab; Optane products are built with 3D XPoint memory fabbed by Micron, with whom they co-developed 3D XPoint.

And it's not cheap or quick to refit a memory fab to produce processors.

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Re:Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process by ryneandal on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:34AM (#25847595)

Ah, I didn't look too deeply into the NAND sale. In that case, yeah I totally see why they are choosing to outsource to TSMC.

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