Intel and Arm announce partnership on mobile chipset development

13 April 2023
Chip designs with Arm CPU cores will be first to use Intel Foundry Services.

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this is gonna be worse than exynos...

    Hemedans, 13 Apr 2023Intel wont produce Arm soc, they port arm ip in theie found... moreYes and No.
    They can already do that. They don't need permission from ARM. And this says nothing about Intel themselves designing the chipsets. They are merely open for subcontracting. So if Qualcomm wants to design their ARM (Kryo-Adreno) chipset, they can stamp it out using Intel's lithography, for the next Snapdragon SoC.

    So is this news significant, or newsworthy?
    Not really. This basically Intel paying money to ARM to do a little publicity. Their shares have already started to go up. And its a good move for Intel to use their Foundry to make silicon for things outside of x86-chips.

    If anything, Intel is coming in third, slightly behind Samsung, and way behind TSMC.
    It's hurting their core business; which is x86 technology. So if they can get funding and revision from alternate sources (ie Phone Chips), they can then do more spending. With the idea, or opportunity, being that their more lucrative products can be fabbed externally. So think of it like having Core-i7 and Core-i9 products being based on x86-Intel but made from TSMC. And that could be the case throughout the product stack (eg Ultrabooks, Gaming Laptops, Desktops, Servers). Thus, giving them an advantage over AMD which has the superior technology and has been "dominating" the market for 5-years. It also opens up Intel to the point of spinning-off their Foundry as a separate business, without losing shareholder trust. It's what AMD did more than a decade ago, selling off their uncompetitive segment as GlobalFoundaries, and becoming a fabless designer. It was painful but it was the right move.

    The other point to mention is that China-USA relations have soured. With TSMC being somewhat of a political tool. The USA is working hard to ensure less advanced computing is accessible to the Chinese military. And this means making big investments into Intel and bringing TSMC overseas to the USA. There's a current Tech Movement happening in Austin, kind of like a second Silicon Valley. I assume this news about Intel Foundry making Phone Chips kind of plays into this last point.

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      • mek
      • 13 Apr 2023

      Finaly some competition. I have nothing against Qualcomm but thre needs to be more competition. Tough intel might actually produce fro PCs like WIndows devices .

        rizki1, 13 Apr 2023can't wait i3 Gen 1, i5 Gen 1 and so on for phone.I honestly dont think the SoCs will be on par with already established ARM SoCs, atleast for the 1st gen or 2. I also dont think they'll be as efficent as TSMC fab either, changing to RISC based insteuctions vs CICS instruction set on x86 based chips isnt a simple tweak, the cores work in different ways.

        Intels GPUs arent even close to what AMD or NVIDIA are producing and atm im pretty sure AMD are leading the mobile/laptop segment and price/performance on desktop CPU's too. To me it feels like another samsung with really inefficient fab yields and worse power efficiency so dont keep your hopes up just yet.

          Intel wont produce Arm soc, they port arm ip in theie foundry, it means Mediatek, Qualcomm, Samsung, Unisoc etc in future can use Intel Fab to make their soc.

            can't wait i3 Gen 1, i5 Gen 1 and so on for phone.

              Very BIG news for chip develpment in the near future. A true Game-changer.

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                • Oki
                • sw3
                • 13 Apr 2023

                Good, we need someone new in mobile industry. Mediatek and snapdragon are still in deep sleep

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                  • AnonD-731363
                  • SH3
                  • 13 Apr 2023

                  So when a phone with this CPU and GPU can be expected???

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                    • Anonymous
                    • U@6
                    • 13 Apr 2023

                    What if no one choses Intel fab based ARM?? LoL!!! What if everyone goes with TSMC as usual and samsung clings to their hopeless foundries.

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                      • 0Zr
                      • 13 Apr 2023

                      Nice

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                        • S1X
                        • 13 Apr 2023

                        Man just after I said why is Intel not maakimg soc for mobiles some articles back

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