Intel's former CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has praised the news that Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPUs are now being produced at its Arizona facility. It's important, he said, for the most cutting-edge silicon supply chains to be resilient, and that such moves would also help Nvidia develop and iterate faster and bigger into the future.
This comes as somewhat of a surprise, as it was under Gelsinger's leadership that Intel pushed so hard for Nvidia fabrication contracts. To date, Intel Foundry Services hasn't secured any of those contracts, even with the recent Nvidia deal and backing from the US government.
