One of Pat's four points to regain integrated device manufacturer leadership is to expand the use of third-party foundry capacity. A strange way to regain leadership?
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Marketing marketing marketing B$.
When you are driven by blind faith and not economic and competitive reality.
When you can’t really deliverer and got a Can of Whoop A$$ at your core competencies.
Just invent a new name and say you are changing and the same people can win now with a different name. Like changing the Redskins to the Commanders change nothing. Forget the fact that all your competitors have pulled ahead are bigger and run faster than you and kicking your a$$
it is actually Intel in the “ Rear View Mirror”
The "regain" is just talk designed for steady the morale. IDM is the Intel religion. The last thing he can do is to turn into a heretic at this point. Besides, what else can one say when there is neither good design nor the ability to make it?
Using outside foundry is the right way to go. But Intel needs to ditch the fabs in order to secure cutting edge foundry capacity elsewhere. Nobody is going to build fab capacity when Intel is undecided. It would be far easier for TSMC to just give the capacities to AMD and ki-l you off once and for all.
Maybe Intel can go begging Samsung. That would be a massive masochistic undertaking. Anyway, the options, are, thanks to Intel, very limited. LOL.