And 3nm mid-to-high-end silicon to follow, claims analyst house
Katyanna Quach
Thu 21 Jan 2021 // 08:14 UTC
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Ahead of Intel publishing its latest quarterly financial results on Thursday, let's have a quick reminder of who is actually making chip manufacturer Intel's chips these days.
Market analysts at TrendForce claimed this month TSMC will handle the mass production of Intel's 5nm Core i3 processors in the second half of this year. Chipzilla's mid- and high-end processors parts will be built by the Taiwanese foundry using a 3nm process node in the second half of next year, it is also thought.
And TrendForce reckoned "Intel has outsourced the production of about 15 to 20 per cent of its non-CPU chips, with most of the wafer starts for these products assigned to TSMC and UMC," citing its own "investigations." By non-CPU, it means some of Intel's graphics processors and other components as well as sub-components.