Intel doesn't know how to be a foundry," Tim Cook reportedly told TSMC's CEO

Re:Intel doesn't know how to be a foundry," Tim Cook reporte... by npalli on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @02:53PM (#42870245)

Less of a technical reason than the fact that TSMC was willing to go farther in accommodating Apple's demand (which is right). Also, this is Morris Chang relaying, so not totally unbiased.

   The implication was that Intel lacked the customer-centric mindset required for a foundry business. Unlike TSMC, which tailors its process technologies to meet customer needs, Intel was used to designing and producing its own chips and struggled to adapt to servicing external clients. By contrast, Apple valued TSMC's ability to listen and respond to specific demands, something Intel historically did not do.

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Re:Intel doesn't know how to be a foundry," Tim Cook reporte... by timewizard on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @03:02PM (#42870369)

"Intel makes more than enough money that they don't have to cater any part of their design to external partners and historically have done very little of this type of work. Our use case was simply not on their radar."

On the other hand I can appreciate that Intel chips are more of a known quantity than the various ARM designs that are floating around out there.

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