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Intel has just 18 months to 'land a hero customer on 14A' or its cutting-edge fabs are toast, says chip industry analyst
Tick, tock, the clock's a tickin'.
While that may seem a while off, Rasgon thinks the ramp up time involved with getting a new process running means Intel has just 18 months from now to "land a hero customer on 14A" for its chip foundry business. What's more, Rasgon reckons that the mere acknowledgement that Intel may have to exit the cutting-edge chip manufacturing business may scare off potential clients, even before they're signed up. In that context, it's certainly a little tricky to imagine Intel maintaining investment in relative side projects like Arc gaming graphics, which would be a great pity.
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