Rumor: Intel Moving Select CPUs To GlobalFoundries

Rumor: Intel Moving Select CPUs To GlobalFoundries

4 years ago
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https://wccftech.com/rumor-intel-moving-select-cpus-to-globalfoundries/

Intel has been running its foundries to the limit since the past year and if what we are hearing is to be believed than the company is planning to offload some of its low end CPUs to GloFo. Keep in mind this is very significant news and since only one of our sources mentioned this and we have no way (as of now) to vet this, we will be marking this as a rumor instead of an exclusive. So take this at face value and keep those salt shakers handy.

That Intel underestimated demand for its 14nm process is an understatement. Having just knocked off a record quarter the company is already trying to increase fab capacity by 25% but even that might not be enough to survive the onslaught of expected growth of the PC industry in 2020. Since Intel's GPUs are also supposed to enter the fray in terms of production this year, things are going to be very tight and the company needs to manage its production lines very carefully in order to have a chance of meeting demand and not bleeding more market/mind share to AMD. This is where this particular rumor comes in.