Intel executive director, Bob Swan , has made some striking statements to Toms Hardware where he assures that the company would be open to using its facilities and factories to create chips using a competitor’s manufacturing technology. That would mean using the company’s manufacturing capacity, the only one in the processor industry x 86 that has its own factories, to create processors and chips for themselves or third parties using a third-party technology.

Manufacturing chips with third-party technology would mean a surprising change of strategy at Intel

Behind this surprising change of strategy (until recently , Anyone who had raised this option would be branded as crazy), would find the problems the company has had to get off the 14 nanometers in its high performance desktop chips , and the delay of its 7 nm nodes until late 2022 or early 2023. Recall that their initial plans were to have the 7 nm ready in 2018. While the competition has already had a 7 nm node for a long time, despite the fact that at the node size level, the equivalence is not direct as we already mentioned in this article. In fact, it seems that the company is already considering subcontracting the production of part of its chips to third parties.

Beyond the image of possible weakness that a giant like Intel may be forced to outsource part of its production, or that they consider using their manufacturing capacity to nodes of the competition, it is still a way to take advantage of their resources and their facilities, so it could be a profitable strategy while they remain in this situation.

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Antonio Delgado

Computer Engineer by training, editor and hardware analyst in Geeknetic since 2011. I love gutting everything that comes my way, especially the latest hardware that we get here for reviews. In my spare time I fiddle with 3d printers, drones and other gadgets. For anything here you have me.