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kken on July 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for about $3...

Well, Globalfoundries was exactly in the same situation directly after they were spun off from AMD and they bought Chartered Semiconductors to get foundry knowledge into their company. They also hired a lot of ex-freescale and ex-IBM people.

silisili on July 16, 2021 [–]

Wait I thought GloFo essentially gave up the node race and was settling into 'not the latest and greatest' market a la TI. Is that not a correct assumption?

patagurbon on July 16, 2021 | [–]

Essentially, but now they have Intel nodes to sell as well. It's a fairly reasonable plan, and I doubt Intel will stay behind TSMC node-wise forever.

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