me (me.delete@this.me.com) on March 25, 2021 11:38 am wrote:
> > Step 1 to changing the perception would be to cancel all the outsourcing contingency plans and
> > commit to fabbing all key products at Intel. They didn't do that, so the message is incoherent.
> > Foundary customers are supposed to trust Intel's fabs when Intel's internal customers don't.
> >
> > Max
> >
>
> I'm sure trust is an issue but also that TSMC's node available at the time will be better, and possibly Samsung
> as well. That doesn't sound great either but there's room for trailing edge nodes in the foundry business.
>
> With a proper chiplet model I could see something like Meteor Lake using
> TSMC for the CPU chiplet but internal nodes for everything else.


For Meteor Lake, it was said clearly that the tile with CPU cores will be done in Intel's 7-nm process.
Nothing was said by the other tiles.

While it seems that there are also plans with some Intel CPU's to be made by TSMC, it is not known yet which those will be, except that they are not Alder Lake/Sapphire Rapids or Meteor Lake/Granite Rapids, which are designed for the Intel enhanced 10-nm and 7-nm processes.