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[News] Intel Might Build Up to 90% of Nova Lake Compute Tiles on 18A, Scaling Back ...
Intel is shifting 80–90% of Nova Lake compute tile production in-house to its 18A process, reversing plans to outsource 60–70% to TSMC, after yields improved to 85%. The move signals confidence in Intel Foundry's maturity but requires new capacity expansion beyond current 30,000 wafers/month.
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The Wire takeaway
Intel just proved it can make leading-edge chips at scale without TSMC—and it's now calling in favours from AMD, NVIDIA, and OpenAI to fill the capacity. If you supply advanced packaging, thermal management, or yield-critical materials to fabs, you now have a second buyer who needs to prove themselves, and that buyer is hungry.
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Topics: Semiconductors · AI Infrastructure · intel-foundry · 18a-yields · tsmc-competition · advanced-packaging · supply-chain