Intel may be moving CPU manufacturing to TSMC starting later this year Comments According to a new report by a Market Intelligence Outfit, Intel will apparently be switching their CPU manufacturing to TSMC starting later this year after struggles with their own in-house manufacturing yields resulted in major issues for the company. Intel has had some trouble in their manufacturing department for the past couple years. Although they still knock it out of the park when it comes to high performance gaming, the Blue Team has struggled with their yields for the 10nm process node and are far behind schedule for the 7nm process.