Intel’s Profit Falls 27% as PC Sales Drop

Re:Intel’s Profit Falls 27% as PC Sales Drop by ableal on Monday January 21, 2013 @05:15PM (#5094060)

The interesting question is whether Intel is going to sell fab capacity to third parties.

Given the umpteen billions they have invested in semiconductor fabrication plants, and the lack of sales of their own chips ...

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Re:Intel’s Profit Falls 27% as PC Sales Drop by SkyMarshal on Monday January 21, 2013 @05:47PM (#5094216)

And their lead in process technology. I would think that alone would drive some demand from third parties wanting to one-up their competition in a way that can't (easily) be countered.

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Re:Intel’s Profit Falls 27% as PC Sales Drop by caw on Monday January 21, 2013 @06:25PM (#5094391)

They already started doing it: http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/11/intel-shifts-strateg...

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Re:Intel’s Profit Falls 27% as PC Sales Drop by ableal on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @04:14AM (#5096273)

Good catch, I missed that. Probably still some way off from having PDKs (physical design kits) and a pricing sheet for Nvidia or other random fabless design shops to make their chips.

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