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Intel to manufacture ARM SoCs

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/17/2016 03:16 PM | source: | 12 comment(s)
Intel to manufacture ARM SoCs

Pretty big news really, Intel entered a licensing agreement with ARM, basically this allows parties like LG, Qualcomm, Apple, and Samsung, to fab ARM SoCs at Intel fabs. 

The two chipmakers, whose designs and technology dominate in computing and mobile, unveiled the agreement Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The accord will let Intel offer third-party semiconductor companies its most advanced 10-nanometer production lines for manufacturing the complex chips usually used in smartphones reports Bloomberg:

Intel, which gets the majority of its revenue from making personal-computer processors, has failed to gain ground in the larger and faster-growing phone market -- the stronghold of ARM’s technology. Under Chief Executive Officer Brian Krzanich, Intel is trying to persuade other chipmakers to use its factories for their production. Adding licenses for ARM’s technology could open up that business to fabricating chips based on those designs for companies such as Qualcomm Inc. and Apple Inc., which now have their chips produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and others.

Intel’s embrace of the competing technology comes as the PC market continues to decline and growth in the lucrative server-chip market slows. The Santa Clara, California-based company began offering foundry services -- outsourced manufacturing -- under Krzanich’s predecessor, Paul Otellini, but hadn’t announced any major customers placing orders in large volume.

Indicating that those fortunes may be changing, Intel announced that LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s second-biggest phone maker behind Samsung Electronics Co., will use Intel’s foundry business to manufacture 10 nanometer mobile-phone parts.

Separately, Intel said it won’t use extreme ultraviolet lithography as a manufacturing technique in its 10-nanometer production. The technology isn’t ready for the next generation of production, 7 nanometer, Intel also said, and the company won’t use the chipmaking technique until it delivers the promised efficiency.

ASML Holding NV is the main manufacturer of EUV machinery and has been trying to make it ready for full use for more than a decade. ASML’s stock fell as much as 3.5 percent in U.S. trading Tuesday following the comments by Mark Bohr, Intel’s head of process architecture.

“I can’t say whether it’s a year from now or three years from now,” Bohr said of the tehnique at the Intel conference. “I am hopeful.”



Intel to manufacture ARM SoCs




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#5322560 Posted on: 08/17/2016 04:06 PM
Their x86/64 small SoCs could not cut it, so now they are switching to ARM? Too many hands in the pot already I'm afraid, didn't AMD back out of the ARM race?

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#5322570 Posted on: 08/17/2016 04:17 PM
A sign of the times really. The tech is on the verge of maxing-out and it's getting harder to find new business.

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#5322605 Posted on: 08/17/2016 05:49 PM
Their x86/64 small SoCs could not cut it, so now they are switching to ARM? Too many hands in the pot already I'm afraid, didn't AMD back out of the ARM race?


They are not switching to ARM. They are renting their fabs basically. Intel is by far the most advanced chip manufacturer in the world. Most other fabs are at least 3 years behind them. With this move they will make a ton of extra money and have a clear peek into everything their competition does. It's a win-win from them.

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#5322607 Posted on: 08/17/2016 05:55 PM
They are not switching to ARM. They are renting their fabs basically. Intel is by far the most advanced chip manufacturer in the world. Most other fabs are at least 3 years behind them. With this move they will make a ton of extra money and have a clear peek into everything their competition does. It's a win-win from them.


Not really. The 14 nm process is good from Global Foundaries/Samsung, and TSMC on the shrunken node as well. Intel does have 10 nm but currently they haven't got it working quite right. So far, instead of getting high performance 10 nm Cannonlake processors we're getting a modified Kaby Lake (Coffee Lake) instead, on 14 nm. Cannonlake is now reserved only for the low end and slower parts. The news of a 6-core Coffee Lake (Kaby Lake Refresh, and Kaby Lake a Skylake Refresh was already an added processor due to Cannonlake delays) overshadowed this fact.

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#5322612 Posted on: 08/17/2016 06:03 PM
Not really. The 14 nm process is good from Global Foundaries/Samsung, and TSMC on the shrunken node as well. Intel does have 10 nm but currently they haven't got it working quite right. So far, instead of getting high performance 10 nm Cannonlake processors we're getting a modified Kaby Lake (Coffee Lake) instead, on 14 nm. Cannonlake is now reserved only for the low end and slower parts. The news of a 6-core Coffee Lake (Kaby Lake Refresh, and Kaby Lake a Skylake Refresh was already an added processor due to Cannonlake delays) overshadowed this fact.


Intel's 14nm has a smaller feature size compared to Samsung's 14nm.

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FeatureSizes1.png

Their 10nm extends the gap even further according to reports at semiwiki (not to be confused with semiaccurate)

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