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Jeremy Laird

Ex-Intel CEO calls current Intel CEO's plans for chip factory investment a 'joke' and wants Nvidia, Apple and Google to stump up the cash to save the fabs

Intel office.

Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan's plan to not invest in the upcoming 14A chip manufacturing node until customers sign up is a joke. That's according to Intel's former CEO, Craig Barrett. Oh, and Barrett doesn't much like the idea that Intel's product design business and its chip factories should be split into two companies. Instead, he reckons Nvidia, Apple and Google should stump up the cash to save Intel's fabs.

Barrett explains all this in an extraordinarily to-the-point and bullet-pointed smackdown on the Fortune website. For the record, Barrett was Intel CEO from 1998 to 2005. He was a hard-nosed, no-nonsense, five-blades kind of CEO, but more on that in a moment.

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