Intel Foundry Services (IFS) has announced Qualcomm and Amazon as its first customers. The company aims to leapfrog TSMC to the top by 2025.
Intel recently launched Intel Foundry Services (IFS), a new branch of its foundry division that will manufacture third-party chips. IFS is now “off to the races” as the company announces its first major customers: Qualcomm and Amazon. Intel Foundry will produce Qualcomm chips using its newly-announced 20A process. The company though didn’t announce a timeframe for when the first batch of these chips will arrive. Intel’s 20A node itself isn’t scheduled to be ready before 2024. So there’s some time to it. It’s also unclear whether IFS will be responsible for the manufacturing of all Qualcomm products or it will only produce select Snapdragon chips coming out at that time. Amazon, meanwhile, isn’t having any of its chips manufactured by Intel. Instead, AWS (Amazon Web Services) will be the first customer to use IFS packaging solutions. Pat Gelsinger had previously suggested that the company is already in talks with dozens of companies for its IFS division. So you can expect it to name a few more clients in the coming times. But Qualcomm and Amazon could well be the highest-profile clients for Intel Foundry Services.
