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The week in chip news: Intel gets a new CEO, China chip smuggling, AMD dominates

We cover the biggest stories of the week.

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Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as permanent CEO

Industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan becomes Intel's permanent CEO, rejoins the company's board-of-directors.

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TSMC and Intel foundry joint venture reportedly still in the works — AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia approached

TSMC reportedly asked its biggest customers to invest in joint venture that would operate Intel's production facilities.

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Intel will keep using TSMC's services even when 18A is ramped up: 'It is a good supplier'

Intel is set to continue outsourcing some of its products to TSMC even when 18A and other advanced nodes are fully ramped.

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Intel shareholder lawsuit dismissed — complaints stemmed from single-day $32B devaluation in 2024

Judge did not find enough evidence that Intel and its management did anything wrong with its financial reporting.

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Former Intel directors strongly oppose TSMC takeover, call for Intel fabs spinoff

Former Intel directors say TSMC fabs takeover is a terrible idea, but fab spinoff to a consortium of companies is a good idea.

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Can 18A save Intel from being devoured by its rivals – and Wall Street?

Intel's 18A process technology is finally ready, but will it be enough to fend off the wolves?

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Jim Keller says a 'great Intel' is worth $1 trillion, company would be sold at fire sale pricing if sold now

Jim Keller would be sad if Intel gets split and its divisions will be run by different companies.

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TSMC reportedly eyes Intel's manufacturing plants following Trump's tariff threat, but not everybody is happy about it

Will TSMC acquire Intel's stateside manufacturing plants?

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Intel principal engineer bemoans potential TSMC takeover, touts company's 18A tech advantage

Call on Intel management and the U.S. government to retain control over Intel Foundry.

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Intel will be keen to forget 2024 despite its products selling well because its foundries still keep on swallowing money

Client, data, AI, networking, and edge were all up compared to 2023.

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Intel delays key Xeon data center processor amid massive losses — Clearwater Forest pushed back to 1H 2026

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What Were the 4 Worst-Performing Stocks in the S&P 500 in 2024?

As 2025 starts to unfold, let's take a look back at the four worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 from last year.

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Intel is sampling 18A-based Panther Lake with customers — Intel Foundry's 18A node and CPUs are on track for 2H 2025 launch

Intel's Panther Lake is on track to be released in the second half of this year as the company is sampling them with PC makers.

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Intel ex-CEO Gelsinger and current co-CEO slapped with lawsuit over Intel Foundry disclosures — plaintiffs demand Gelsinger surrender salary earned

The plaintiffs seek the entire sum of Gelsinger's $207 million salary that he earned during his tenure, which would then be paid back to Intel.

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Qualcomm claps back at Intel, denies high return rates of Snapdragon PCs

Qualcomm has denied claims of high return rates for Arm PCs. Recently, Intel's co-CEO stated that retailers see higher return rates for PCs powered by Qualcomm chips than systems powered by Intel processors.

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After the 'change of regime', spinning off Intel Foundry is an 'open question' for the CPU manufacturer

Intel could be in for a weird year.

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Intel executive says spinning off manufacturing unit is an 'open question'

Intel's co-CEO thinks that spinning off fabs is not a wise idea, but the actual decision will be made by 'someone.'

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Intel looks beyond silicon, outlines breakthroughs in atomically-thin 2D transistors, chip packaging, and interconnects at IEDM 2024

Today, the Intel Foundry Technology Research team announced technology breakthroughs in transistor, interconnects, and packaging technology, among others, which it will unveil in seven of its own papers, along with two more papers in collaboration with industry partners like imec, at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) 2024 conference.

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is gone but will Intel's chip fabs follow him out the door?

If AMD is the ultimate case study, kiss goodbye to Intel's fabs.

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Shareholders pay up as Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger is reportedly set to depart with a $12 million golden handshake

Pat Gelsinger will enjoy almost $12 million in severance payments as he steps down as the CEO of Intel.

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Down 53% YTD, Is Intel Stock Worth the Risk?

Intel, down 53% in 2024, just made a major change in its C-suite. Is this a dip-the-buy opportunity?

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Intel's $7.86B US Subsidy Restricts Sale Of Chipmaking Unit

Intel revealed that the U.S. government subsidies require it to retain at least 50.1% ownership of Intel Foundry if separated into a private entity, and limit sales to a single shareholder to 35% if the unit becomes public, before running into "change-in-control" provisions.

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Intel's CHIPS Act funding restricts the sale of foundry buisness — company has to maintain majority share if it spins off manufacturing unit

Intel must maintain control of Intel Foundry even in case it decides to spin it off into a separate private or public company.

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Intel won't bring 3D V-Cache-like tech to consumer CPUs for now — next-gen Clearwater Forest Xeon CPUs will feature "Local Cache" in the base tile akin to AMD's 3D V-Cache

Intel confirms that its Clearwater Forest CPUs will separate the CPU cores and cache into separate tiles, mirroring AMD's X3D design. However, this tech won't be coming to the desktop anytime soon.

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