Intel is back with a bang, full of enthusiasm for the foundry business. This time, the company is all ready to give tough competition to the rest of the other companies, such as TSMC and Samsung.
To maintain its strong position in the foundry business again, Intel is actively making significant investments. However, Samsung is already facing a struggling phase with TSMC’s dominance of the contract chipmaking segment, and now another competitor is on the ground. Samsung now also has to deal with Intel.
Now the Korean giants are actively increasing the speed of commercialization of quite advanced chip-making processes in a bid to leapfrog TSMC. Although previously the brand confirmed that its 1.4nm fabrication process would be ready until 2027,.
On the other hand, Intel has confirmed that it will begin making chips using the cutting-edge 1.4nm process in the coming years. At the first foundry event, it was announced by Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger that Intel 14A is, for the first time, the brand’s name for its 1.4n process. Whereas Samsung and TSMC have both started making chips on the 3nm process, on the flip side, Intel is already on 5nm, and it’s racing to start 2nm production alongside both bearers till 2025. However, the fact is that the US-based chip manufacturer has a late start to the foundry injury, but still, there’s hope that an increased focus on advanced processes will help it cover up the gap.
Samsung is looking to commercialize the 1.4nm chip until 2027, whereas TSMC is also looking for 2027–2028. On the opposite side, Intel is also looking to get its chips out by 2027. At the moment, TSMC accounts for almost 60% of the contract chip-making industry, and Samsung is in second place with 13% of the market.
However, Intel is already signing up strong clients, for instance, Microsoft. It has already become its first foundry customer by choosing the 1.8nm process of Intel for manufacturing the chips. The CEO of Intel has repeated the aim of the company to become the second-largest foundry in the world by 2030.
Basically, the overall discussion directly hints that Intel is actively working just to overtake the Korean brand ‘Samsung’ in the industry, and somewhere it probably came across in Samsung’s way to expand its share.
