TSMC spent a record $30-billion last year on factories that churn out the world’s most advanced chips. It seems even that wasn’t enough.
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The Biden administration spurned a plan by Intel to increase production in China over security concerns, dealing a setback to an idea pitched as a fix for US chip shortages.
An extremely expensive game of one-upmanship is being played out in the semiconductor industry where the winners will look like heroes and the rest may not even survive.
Intel’s future is looking a bit grim. And the reality is the chip maker’s problems are only going to get more challenging. By Tae Kim.
Intel said its factories will start making Qualcomm chips as it laid out a road map on Monday to expand its new foundry business to catch rivals such as Taiwan’s TSMC and Samsung Electronics by 2025.
Chip maker Intel said it still faces supply chain constraints and gave an annual sales forecast that implied a weak end of the year.
Chip makers from Taiwan to the US are cranking up production to address shortages that have hammered car manufacturers and other customers as they try to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has predicted the shortage of semiconductors that’s hurting industries from automotive to consumer electronics will bottom out in the second half of this year.
Intel’s CEO said on Monday it could take several years for a global shortage of semiconductors to be resolved.
Taiwan has suffered a sudden reversal of fortunes. The pandemic comes just as a drought triggers power outages, stoking economic uncertainty and threatening the world’s chip supply.