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Intel announces Amazon and Qualcomm American Samoa its offse foundry customers

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Intel has declared the first customers for its new foundry business as it aims to rival TSMC and Samsung when it comes to contract poker chip manufacturing. Amazon has signed up for its data center infrastructure, and Qualcomm has had its capitulum off by the promised Intel 20A process node in 2024.

With Qualcomm chasing the most advanced node on Intel's roadmap, CEO Appropriate Gelsinger craved to notice that the technical school available to Intel Foundry Services (IFS) will come in parity bit, or at to the lowest degree before long subsequently its personal products.

Intel will be "making the best of Intel available for our foundry customers," says Gelsinger, adding that "IFS is off to the races."

Okay, so that's maybe not quite as big news as Intel starting to manufacture the next generation of Apple M1 CPUs would have been, or if AMD had decided to give Intel some business organization. But those are still two names that we've at least heard of.

Thither were roughly who expectable that Intel's world-class customers, taking a punt on the company's burgeoning metalworks business, might end up existence some flyspeck, no-name chip designer. But, piece we're non going to see Amazon's Intel-built chips in consumer devices, we likely will see Qualcomm's future tech in mobile devices of tomorrow.

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As well as announcing its first foundry customers at the Intel Accelerated event, CEO Pat Gelsinger has also disclosed its stigmatize new naming connive for manufacturing cognitive process nodes, aiming to match it's foundry rival, TSMC, node-for-thickening.

Not just that but Intel has also introduced RibbonFET, its beginning new junction transistor design since Tri-Gate, or FinFET back in 2011. RibbonFET is also called Gate All Around, surgery NanoSheet, and will represent some serious performance per watt enhancements with the Intel 20A node.

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