Intel Might Enter Foundry Territory

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Matt Richtel and Ashlee Vance, Intel Takes a Wider Role, Making Chips for Others; A major departure from the company's practice of not taking contract work. New York Times, Nov. 1, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/business/01chip.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=intel&st=cse

Note:
(a) Paragraph 7 from the bottom: "Mr. Byrne added that the move had the chance to heighten competition in the F.P.G.A. market, is currently dominated by two companies: Xilinx and Altera."

The word "which" is missing, just befoe "is currently."
(b) The report in Wall Street Journal today on this topic is not remarkable, except noting that Achronix and its two larger rivals are using TSMC at present.
(c) Xilinx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilinx
(a supplier of programmable logic devices; known for inventing the field programmable gate array (FPGA) and as the first semiconductor company with a fabless manufacturing model; Founded in Silicon Valley in 1984, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California, U.S.A.; Dublin, Ireland; Singapore; and Tokyo, Japan; section 1.1 Early Days; section 3.1 Origin of Company Name)


--------------------Separately
(1) Intel Dalian opened days ago, underwhelmingly. Reporting from Taiwan (!), Reuters issued a generic report, but not AP or bloomberg. "Named 'Fab 68' because 6 and 8 are numbers significant in Chinese."

(a) Also:
"The $2.5 billion plant in Dalian, located in northeast China's Liaoning Province, will initially manufacture chipsets for laptops, high-performance desktop PCs and powerful servers."
Li Qiaoyi, Intel debuts new Dalian fab. Global Times, Oct. 26, 2010.

(b) Intel itself has nothing new in company's web site, not even a press release. Its only video is undated. It is largely a computer-generated model (for the fab)--without any humans; at the end humans appear but it is unclear when and where.

"An environmental benchmark for China
Dalian is now home to one of Intel's most advanced manufacturing facilities. The eco-design of this Intel fabrication plant will serve as an environmental benchmark for all of China."
Intel Dalian
http://video.intel.com/index.jsp?fr_story=4c6517bff8088001ebaf0afc914de1502fc3d14c



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