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Who’s Buying America’s Foundry Future?

Who’s Buying America’s Foundry Future?
by Jonah McLeod on 04-12-2026 at 2:00 pm

Uncle Sam (2)

Everyone has been treating Intel as a turnaround story. What if it’s not a scheduled airline — but a charter, and Musk is the one filing the flight plan? Not just Tesla. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle are all designing their own silicon now, and their AI infrastructure depends on it. And yet they remain dependent… Read More


Intel, Musk, and the Tweet That Launched a 1000 Ships on a Becalmed Sea

Intel, Musk, and the Tweet That Launched a 1000 Ships on a Becalmed Sea
by Jonah McLeod on 04-08-2026 at 12:00 pm

Intel Terafab SemiWiki

Intel, Musk, and the Tweet That Launched a 1000 Ships on a Becalmed Sea
Why do professional executives running major corporations frame a major moment in their company’s history with a tweet? Jerry Sanders spent his career yelling “real men have fabs!” Now Intel has fabs–and apparently tweets about … Read More


Agentic AI Demands More Than GPUs

Agentic AI Demands More Than GPUs
by Daniel Nenni on 04-08-2026 at 8:00 am

Agentic AI Requires More CPUs

Agentic AI workloads are reshaping the compute requirements of modern data center infrastructure by shifting performance bottlenecks from GPU-centric inference to CPU-heavy orchestration and workflow management. Traditional AI inference pipelines relied primarily on GPUs performing a single forward pass, where input… Read More


Silicon Insurance: Why eFPGA is Cheaper Than a Respin — and Why It Matters in the Intel 18A Era

Silicon Insurance: Why eFPGA is Cheaper Than a Respin — and Why It Matters in the Intel 18A Era
by Daniel Nenni on 03-26-2026 at 10:00 am

Silicon Insurance Why eFPGA is Cheaper Than a Respin

As semiconductor technology advances into increasingly complex and expensive process nodes, the economic and technical risks associated with ASIC design have grown dramatically. At advanced nodes such as Intel 18A, the cost of a single design error can escalate into tens of millions of dollars, compounded by months of delay.… Read More


Captain America: Can Elon Musk Save America’s Chip Manufacturing Industry?

Captain America: Can Elon Musk Save America’s Chip Manufacturing Industry?
by Jonah McLeod on 03-20-2026 at 6:00 am

Elon Musk Lip Bu Tan Wafer Deal

Intel has posted three consecutive years of falling revenue and an $18.76 billion loss in 2024 alone—and the U.S. government has handed it tens of billions of dollars to fix the problem. The government money isn’t fixing the real issue, which isn’t technical. It’s cultural. Intel got slow, political, and risk-averse—the… Read More


Intel Foundry: How They Got Here and Scenarios for Improvement

Intel Foundry: How They Got Here and Scenarios for Improvement
by Mark Webb on 03-11-2026 at 8:00 am

Intel Foundry How They Got Here and Scenarios for Improvement

How do you get a shortage while not growing???

Intel Announced earnings in January. Then David Zinsner presented updates on business this week. David is open when talking and always shares 2-3 things he probably should not share. Often he shares things some of us know, but we cannot present because it is not public. Then he makes it… Read More


Things From Intel 10K That Make You Go …. Hmmmm

Things From Intel 10K That Make You Go …. Hmmmm
by Mark Webb on 03-08-2026 at 8:00 am

MKW Ventures Semiconductors

INTEL FORM 10-K

☑ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended December 27, 2025.

1) Intel is constrained on manufacturing. Not by TSMC. But by IFS and mainly by Intel 7, a node from 2021. Normally constraints are good, it means you are running efficiently with lots of … Read More


Global 2nm Supply Crunch: TSMC Leads as Intel 18A, Samsung, and Rapidus Race to Compete

Global 2nm Supply Crunch: TSMC Leads as Intel 18A, Samsung, and Rapidus Race to Compete
by Daniel Nenni on 03-06-2026 at 6:00 am

TSMC 2NM Intel 18A Samsung 2nm Rapidus 2nm

The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a structural supply challenge that’s tightly coupled to exploding demand for advanced chips, especially those used in AI, HPC, and next-generation mobile and consumer devices. At the center of this vortex is the 2nm class of manufacturing technology, representing one of the most … Read More


TSMC vs Intel Foundry vs Samsung Foundry 2026

TSMC vs Intel Foundry vs Samsung Foundry 2026
by Daniel Nenni on 02-13-2026 at 6:00 am

TSMC vs Intel Foundry vs Samsung Foundry

The global semiconductor industry sits at the foundation of modern technology, powering everything from smartphones and cloud data centers to artificial intelligence, automobiles, and national defense systems. At the center of advanced chip manufacturing are three major players: TSMC, Samsung Foundry, and Intel FoundryRead More


TSMC Formally Sues Ex-SVP Over Alleged Transfer of Trade Secrets to Intel

TSMC Formally Sues Ex-SVP Over Alleged Transfer of Trade Secrets to Intel
by Daniel Nenni on 11-28-2025 at 6:00 am

TSMC vs Wei Jen Lo

The big semiconductor news this week is the legal action TSMC is taking against former Senior Vice President Wei-Jen Lo. This looks to be a serious game of 3D chess between CC Wei and Lip-Bu Tan so it is worth a look. I got this notice in my inbox early Tuesday morning:

Immediately following, there was an interesting discussion on SemiWikiRead More