Will be announced next week, overseas sites will be gutted with cheaper packages by the buyer (statutory only). Executives and cronnies scrambling to get out ahead of this happening
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Not happening poster is from Ireland. Ireland site and is the only site making 1276. This is the process to make base chips for 18A. The poster is stirring the pot and disgruntled they didn’t get VSP
Chips act money on hold for intel, uh oh.
Bye bye Foundry! I heard this as well, good news to save other areas.
@clq sounds like BS to me. Broadcom wouldn't want to sign up for managing a BU hemorrhaging money like this. And also wouldn't it be anticompetitive? If anything, a consortia of American fabless companies might be able to hold majority stake in foundry to align its goals.
Broadcomm purchase would be blocked. More likely a nationalisation of US sites for aerospace and defense and a sell off of the overseas sites to investment funds that will split and sell for scraps
@clq a well placed source? Wouldn't that be outside of Intel?
I heard the ladies working in the CH5 cafe talking about it not happening.
Makes me miss Andy Grove.
Internal mail announcing this by Friday this week from a well placed source
Hock Tan is too smart to buy that junk.
Total crap2
Sauce?
Nah. Hock Tan won't buy it
Buckle up. Deluge is about to happen.
What a shambles Intel has become
This seems very likely now and the Ireland site in particular would be all but wiped out on this announcement. Ireland is a shockingly expensive place to run foundry and it is excepted by senior leadership on the site that Broadcom would gut the site and sell it for parts
The supposed leak from Broadcom last week about 18A makes sense... as a tactic to lower the price.