Although it is strategically vital for Intel to bring back the production of its chips to its fabs, the company admits that TSMC is a strategic partner that makes some of its most important products, such as the Core Ultra 200V (codenamed Lunar Lake) processors. Intel even supplies equipment to TSMC, as Pat Gelsinger, chief executive of Intel, highlighted in an interview with Yahoo! Finance.
“TSMC is an awesome company, they serve their customers well and they serve us well,” Gelsinger said. “Lunar Lake, the AI PC [platform] we spoke about, we could not do it, without TSMC. […] That said, we are a customer, a competitor, we also collaborate with TSMC on industry standards, this idea of advanced packaging with chiplets from TSMC and Intel, which is super important that we work together.”
