Time: 2021-04-22 www.sdyserver.cn
Intel once refused to invest in TSMC, and now it is quite ironic to enter the foundry industry

Not long ago, Intel’s new CEO Pat Kissinger announced the IDM 2.0 strategy, which mainly includes investing heavily in increasing chip production capacity, opening up the foundry business, and handing over some products to tripartite partners for foundry.


Among them, in the foundry industry, Intel said that the door is open, and the orders of x86, ARM, RISC-V and other architectures are all accepted.


Obviously, Intel is aiming at this big cake that is now controlled by companies such as TSMC, Samsung, and GF. In this regard, TSMC founder and known as the "chip king" Zhang Zhongmou also expressed his views in his speech a few days ago.


Zhang Zhongmou broke the news that he had asked Intel to participate in raising funds to build TSMC in 1985, but was rejected. Zhang Zhongmou believes that although there was no business situation at the time, he still read what Intel looked down on. Nowadays, Intel has aggressively entered the foundry industry, which is quite ironic.


However, Zhang Zhongmou also immediately pointed out that Intel is still "gracious" to TSMC. When the company was in need of overseas customers at the beginning of its establishment, it bumped into walls everywhere. Fortunately, Intel gave the first order. I would like to thank the then CEO Andrew Grove. Ruf) for help.