alt Hacker News> Intel would be a highly successful foundry business
> very high performance RISC-V cores
Just need some unicorns on rainbows to with both of those.
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bigyabai • yesterday at 10:02 PM
Both are objectively true, though. IFS would finally stand on it's own legs with a customer at Apple's scale, and Intel has the required IP and know-how to provide a stopgap RISC chip to embedded and datacenter customers that Apple usually ignores.
The "nightmare scenario" of Apple buying out the entirety of 14A to fabricate ARM chips is more-or-less what Pat Gelsinger spent his tenure trying to arrange.
Very high performance RISC-V cores have been available for licensing for a while.
Far from unicorn territory.
And we'll see them on chips soon. e.g. Tenstorrent announced Atlantis, a SoC and development platform, due 2026Q1.