Intel's struggles to land customers for its Intel Foundry unit raised concerns over viability of Pat Gelsinger's IDM 2.0 strategy and resurrected rumors about the company's possible plans to spin off or sell its manufacturing capacity. But only a few companies worldwide can potentially afford and operate Intel's fabs. One of them is TSMC, and it says it is not interested in acquiring those facilities.
"Are we interested to acquire one of IDM's fabs?" C.C. Wei, chief executive and chairman of TSMC asked rhetorically during the company's earnings call when asked whether TSMC was interested in taking over Intel's fabs. "The answer is no, OK? No, not at all."
