Samsung has reportedly secured a “PC CPU” manufacturing order from Intel. This would entail Intel utilizing Samsung’s fabs to fabricate its processors. “PC CPU” is a broad time period, interchangeable with “client CPU,” and will embrace each pocket book and desktop processors, spanning the “S,” “H,” “U,” and “Y” silicon variants (mainstream desktop, mainstream pocket book, ultrabook, and extremely low-power, respectively). Samsung’s bouquet of contract-manufacturing covers not simply silicon fabrication throughout 14 nm, but additionally sub 10 nm nodes, but additionally supplies different key phases of processor manufacturing, together with bumping and packaging. Intel would need minimal expenditure in adapting its chip designs to Samsung’s nodes
In her November 20 letter addressed to Intel’s prospects, government V-P and GM for gross sales, advertising, and communications, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, talked about that along with Intel’s personal manufacturing services, the corporate is roping in “foundries” (third-party silicon fabrication corporations) to satisfy demand. Samsung and TSMC lead the foundry enterprise, adopted by the likes of GlobalFoundries, UMC, and many others.
