It's an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs

Samsung Hwaseon S3 and S4 manufacturing plants.

When it comes to the latest CPUs and GPUs, we all know that they need to be made on the most complex and expensive process nodes, in order to pack in billions of transistors into the die. However, not all chips need to be fabricated this way, which is why Intel is only just making the transition to 8 nm for its motherboard chipsets. More importantly, though, it seems that it won't be the US chip giant that will be making them, but Samsung instead.

That's according to a news report by The Korean Economic Daily, aka Hankyung (via Tom's Hardware). Sources within the industry have told the publication that Samsung is "on the verge of securing an order for Intel's 8 nm chips." It's not talking about the company's CPUs or GPUs, though, but rather its PCHs or platform controller hubs.