TSMC May Surpass Intel In Quarterly Revenue For First Time
The kicker is that Intel plans to use this increased capacity to produce more of its own chips while also supporting its revitalized foundry business, which hopes to take business from TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung, the industry’s other leading-edge chipmaker, in the future. This new strategy by Intel is called IDM 2.0, and it means the chipmaker will have to juggle two somewhat conflicting objectives:
– taking foundry market share away from TSMC and Samsung by convincing various fabless chip designers to use its plants;
– and using leading-edge nodes from TSMC and Samsung for certain components to compete with fabless companies like AMD and Nvidia. “Samsung has already surpassed Intel as the largest semiconductor company by revenue, so TSMC potentially growing larger than the x86 giant further underscores the tentative position Intel is in,” concludes the report.
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