With the upper management of IFS largely turned over, expect to see badge flipping and outright fab sales over a reasonable period of time.
LBT is obviously actively working to build an external customer base for IFS, but that only fills the newer fabs. The non-EUV fabs eventually got to go, sold to lagging node foundries at some point.
NM is actually gaining business from the SpaceX and NVDA deals, which both include using packaging from IFS.
But the issue is that the cost is too high even as external business starts to happen, thus the increased use of external labor. This almost certainly will also include outsourcing to companies like ACN for office functions such as engineering and data management.
A more radical move might be to outsource tool and process engineering, since apparently it is so easy to do those jobs while WFH.
All this seems like an inevitability, as LBT pushes for an end to the IFS excess capacity and structural cost which has so degraded the rest of the company.
Welcome to reality.