Intel 18A mind as well have been done in a laboratory. It’s really not scale since Intel supply chains and operations are 12 years away from being as capable as TSMC.
You see it takes 4-5 years to build / qualify a fab. Now think if you have to retrofit all of Intel fabs to be efficient at scale. This is site infrastructure… not tools.
Intel architecture has led to a flawed process… they spent all the focus on tick tock and blaming suppliers for their problems…but not making any updates to infrastructure…..over 15 years…
Intel could never compete with TSMC on yield or price.
Basically, TSMC weighing on taking on Intel to drag them down!! They need a lot of benefits to be convinced.
The fab jobs are probably safer than the design jobs. TSMC can’t just shut them down (cost too much idle). Broadcom has a much easier job of sending all these sales and marketing people away.