Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: Too many chips made in Asia

I think Intel are more focused upon not surfing the bleeding edge, more the bulk of other silicon production that is usually on many generations behind. So offering those the opportunity to step up in nodes for them but also using proven nodes which , whilst not bleeding edge - will do ok. That with any bleeding edge needs, being open to outsourcing on a case by case bases for their own parts.

I think for many, they view Intel based upon how well they do running computer games and think the stock resolves around that when we have learned that their income streams are more widely spread.

As for alternative to TSMC, that gets down to getting ahead on nodes or when nodes get to a stage that they won't get any smaller. Also the work with IBM is interesting and whilst IBM left the FAB industry, they still do research and that combination may help Intel catchup or surpase the current cutting edge TSMC offer.

I do feel what Intel is going for is opening up their 14nm(insert plus signs to taste) as they shift their core onto the 10nm. They had a lot of investment in 14nm and milked it well, but now they have the opportunity to open that up and gain value from that instead of the usual retooling one node into a new node and some node changes will be more impacting and might well be the case. Let alone the downtime and then to get the plant particle free after all the work - very costly. So to cash in on that as is more and just build new plants from scratch can for the accountants become very much the right direction to go and that is how it seems to be. More so when politically getting subsidies to build new plants over retooling an existing one can make that option even cheaper.

However it is being driven, it's good for Intel and the industry as a whole as more choice. Equally I'm very interested in how Intel and IBM will collaborate and have a good feeling about all this.

Pointing out that there is a concentration of chip manufacturing in one region (or even country) is not xenophobic. It is globalist, and it is capitalist, but it's not xenophobic any more than it is to say that the concentration of social networks coming out of silicon valley is a problem (it is!).

This already exists/existed at GlobalFoundaries and they’ve been closing fabs.

The fab business isn’t great, tbh, because most of the money is in the value add.

"Indo" in "Indo-European" comes from India, one of the two largest countries on the Asian continent. You might classify some languages spoken in India as.. Indo-European. Shocking. Those Indians who speak those languages.. are Asian! Surprise!

Since you missed third grade geography, the other continents in addition to Asia are Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and recently discovered to be its own continent, Zealandia

Good try though, projecting your own racism onto the topic at hand while simultaneously revealing incredible ignorance

He's also talking out of both side of his mouth. Yesterday we learn this[1] and this "Galsigner says" story unironically fails to point it out.

[1] Intel to Outsource Some Key CPU Production for 2023 Chips to TSMC https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-to-outsource-some-ke...