Recently appointed Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan made his first keynote at Intel Vision 2025, where he said he will focus on earning customer trust and catering to their needs and demands. This change in the chipmaking giant’s mindset began with former CEO Pat Gelsinger’s IDM 2.0 plan, and Mr. Tan is apparently pushing this agenda harder with support from his predecessor.
Intel needs to do this, especially as TSMC founder Morris Chang said that Tim Cook told him in 2011 that Intel didn’t know how to be a foundry. It was thought that Team Blue could not accommodate the changes external chip customers required, making it a poor fit for manufacturing the highly customized chips that different devices necessitate.
