Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says that Intel’s chipmaking tech still isn’t up to snuff — at least not for the Snapdragon X. In an interview with Bloomberg published September 5, Amon said that Intel “is not an option today,” but left open the possibility for a future partnership, adding “we would like Intel to be an option.”
It’s a short but pointed comment that lands hard in the middle of Intel’s planned foundry turnaround. The company has staked its future on becoming a contract manufacturer for other chip designers and has repeatedly said that its roadmap depends on securing a large external customer. Unfortunately for Intel, Amon’s remarks obliterate one of Intel’s most realistic prospects for building advanced client silicon for an outside firm, at least in the near term.
