"Setup costs are high and that's why there's so much cash burn," said Bassi, the Counterpoint analyst. "Running a foundry is a capital-intensive business. That's why most of the competitors are fabless, they are more than happy to outsource it to TSMC." Intel last month reported...
Were he to not succeed in these efforts, it would amount to a “major double whammy” against Intel, an analyst told EE Times. And, another analyst asserted, the export controls unfairly zero in on Intel and other chipmakers. “China represents 25% to 30% of [Intel’s] semiconductor exp...
It eventually lost its chipmaking dominance to overseas players like Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung. And sincearound the mid-2010s, the most advanced chip manufacturing has happened abroad. Even powerhouse U.S. “chipmakers,” like California-based Nvidia, rely on Taiwanese pl...
On June 6, 2005, Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, announced that Apple would be using Intel's x86 processors for its Macintosh computers, switching from the PowerPC architecture developed by the AIM alliance.[66] This was seen as win for Intel;[67] an analyst called the move "risky" and...
first phase, which focused on chip manufacturing, Big Fund II seems to have increased investment in key links of the industry chain, including chip design, equipment, components and raw materials, Fu Liang, an independent tech analyst, told the state-backed media outlet Global Times that month....
Nearly every analyst update on the stock since August 2nd has involved a rating downgrade or a reduced target price. The question now is whether Intel is apt to go bust or if the company can recover from what seems to be a crisis in investor confidence. ...
first phase, which focused on chip manufacturing, Big Fund II seems to have increased investment in key links of the industry chain, including chip design, equipment, components and raw materials, Fu Liang, an independent tech analyst, told the state-backed media outlet Global Times that month....
Will Strauss, principal of market watcher Forward Concepts, guesses it is because her group failed to get a design win in the iPhone 7. However, Bloomberg reports one Wall Street analyst speculates Intel will get at least some of those high volume, high value sockets. ...
The article said initial conversation and fleshing out of the Light Peak standard began between Steve Jobs and Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Apple expressed a need for a single port and that optical signaling made the most sense. Apple is expected to incorporate Light Peak quickly and will use it...