Voiced the day before South Korean sources denied colleagues from the site , who claim that Samsung will not release 14nm Rocket Lake processors commissioned by Intel. Adapting design solutions to the specifics of Samsung's 14nm process technology in this case would require a lot of effort and effort, depriving such industrial specialization of sense. Instead, according to Tom's Hardware resource, citing its own informed sources, Samsung will be engaged in the release of Intel chipsets, and the potentially used lithographic standards are not specified.
Back in late 2017, Intel announced that it was using third-party manufacturing facilities for almost two decades in a row. So far, TSMC has been Intel's main partner in this area. It was this company, in particular, that produced XMM modem solutions of previous generations for Intel, and only recently modern products of this series "moved" to the Intel conveyor. In fact, the history of Intel's "outsourced" products is almost always associated with the involvement of third-party companies in their development. So, the same modems were developed by former Infineon specialists, whose core business Intel bought in 2011.
At the height of tablet PC popularity, Intel tried to offer a wide range of components for this type of product, and therefore partnered with Chinese processor developers to offer the SoFIA platform, which integrated mobile-class CPUs and modems for 3G networks. Such products have not received much distribution outside of China, but TSMC also dealt with their release by order of Intel.
Not so long ago, Intel acquired the Israeli company Mobileye, which develops processors for transport automation systems. Its products are also manufactured by TSMC, and one of the promising developments will even switch to the 7nm process technology before Intel itself masters it. Similarly, TSMC could also produce products from Intel's recently acquired companies, in terms of programmable matrices and neural network accelerators. True, in this area, integration with Intel's production capabilities is almost complete, since Altera has been a client of Intel for a long time, and the latter itself acted as a contract manufacturer of programmable matrices.
Finally, Intel has not been afraid to entrust TSMC with the release of individual chipsets. Thus, cooperation with Samsung in this area looks quite logical. Intel's own capacities can be loaded with something of a higher priority, and the partner will be able to produce less complex products for reasonable money. It remains to find out what kind of products they will be, and by what technology they will be produced.
Source: 3dnews.ru