Intel is in the early stages of talks with AMD about making the fabless chip designer an Intel Foundry customer, according to data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.semafor.com/article/10/01/2025/intel-amd-foundry-customer-deal” data-url=”https://www.semafor.com/article/10/01/2025/intel-amd-foundry-customer-deal” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>a report from Semafor.
The report, citing “people familiar with the matter,” doesn’t say just how much of AMD’s chip manufacturing would move to Intel. The company currently fabs its chips at TSMC. (Intel fabs some products at TSMC, too.)
In the past several weeks, Intel has seen a flurry of activity and investments. The United States data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/trump-says-u-s-govt-will-take-a-10-percent-ownership-stake-in-intel-lip-bu-tan-reportedly-agreed-to-unprecedented-arrangement-for-a-domestic-chipmaker” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/trump-says-u-s-govt-will-take-a-10-percent-ownership-stake-in-intel-lip-bu-tan-reportedly-agreed-to-unprecedented-arrangement-for-a-domestic-chipmaker”>announced a 9.9% ownership stake in Intel,…
