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Intel Foundry rumored to team with Samsung Foundry, in order to better compete against TSMC

Intel Foundry rumored to team with Samsung Foundry in order to compete with TSMC, as the future of the semiconductor business heats up.

Intel Foundry rumored to team with Samsung Foundry, in order to better compete against TSMC
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Intel is struggling... we all know it, Samsung is struggling... we all know it... but now rumors are swirling that Intel Foundry and Samsung Foundry could combine forces to compete against the semiconductor leader: TSMC.

In a new video from leaker Moore's Law is Dead, his sources have said that Intel and Samsung could combine resources in their foundries, to compete with TSMC. As I was writing this story, I noticed that South Korea's Daily Economic News that Intel and Samsung are in discussions to form a "wafer foundry alliance" to fight TSMC.

UDN reports that the industry is concerned that Intel could shift its processor outsourcing orders as a "conditioin of exchange" with Samsung, which will affect TSMC (but not too much, they're too busy fabbing chips for NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, MediaTek, Apple, and more).

However, with Intel's continued struggles in the processor market (including the new Core Ultra 200 series "Arrow Lake" processors) are one thing, but the US chip giant has also been spending billions of dollars acquiring the best High-NA EUV lithography machines in the world from ASML, so once Intel has its High-NA EUV lithography machines setup in the months and years ahead, we'll see things massively improved.

A partnership with Samsung makes sense, as NVIDIA has teamed heavily with South Korean memory rival SK hynix, and Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing leader TSMC on its market-leading Hopper H100 and H200 AI GPUs, and now its Blackwell B200 and GB200 chips powered by new HBM3E memory from SK hynix. NVIDIA's future-gen Rubin R100 AI GPU will use HBM4 and will see the light of day in Q4 2025.

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NVIDIA, TSMC, and SK hynix also recently formed the "triangular alliance" for next-gen AI GPUs and HBM4 memory... so Samsung and Intel need to do something, right?

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Anthony joined the TweakTown team in 2010 and has since reviewed 100s of graphics cards. Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles. FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. His addiction to GPU tech is unwavering and has recently taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.

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