By Fanny Potkin, Milana Vinn and Wen-Yee Lee
Singapore / New York / Taipei (REUTERS) – TSMC presented the designers of American chips NVIDIA, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom on taking holdings in a joint venture that would exploit the factories of Intel, according to four familiar sources with the problem.
As part of the proposal, the Taiwanese giant of the manufacture of Tamias would manage the operations of the Foundry division of Intel, which makes the chips adapted to the needs of customers, but it would not relax more than 50%, according to sources. Qualcomm was also presented by TSMC, according to one of the sources and a separate source.
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The talks, who are at an early stage, intervene after the administration of the American president Donald Trump asked TSMC, the leading contractual manufacturer of the world, helped to overthrow the American industrial icon in difficulty, said sources under the cover of anonymity because the talks are not public.
TSMC plan details do not take more than 50% and its openings to potential partners are reported for the first time.
Any final agreement – whose value is not clear – would need the approval of the Trump administration, which does not want Intel or its foundry division to belong to sources abroad, according to sources.
Intel, TSMC, NVIDIA, AMD and Qualcomm refused to comment. The White House and Broadcom did not respond to requests for comments.
The challenge is the future of the American giant of the manufacture of Tamias, whose actions have lost more than half of their value in the past year.
Intel said a net loss of $ 18.8 billion, its first since 1986, driven by significant disabilities. Real estate equipment and factories in the foundry division had an accounting value of $ 108 billion on December 31, according to a company file.
Trump wants to relaunch Intel’s fortune, while trying to stimulate American advanced manufacturing, according to three sources.
The sources indicated that the TSMC joint venture land had been brought to potential donors before the Taiwanese flea manufacturer announced with Trump on March 3 that the company planned to make a new investment of $ 100 billion in the United States which involves building five additional flea facilities in the coming years.
The discussions on the joint venture on the Foundry D’In Division have continued since, said the three sources, TSMC seeking to have more than one flea designer as a partner.
Several companies have expressed their interest in the purchase of Intel parties, but two of the four sources said that the American company had rejected discussions on the sale of its flea design house separately from the fund division.
Qualcomm has left previous discussions to buy all or part of Intel, according to these people and a separate source.
According to two sources,
The contractual manufacturing activity of Intel, or division of the foundries, was a crucial part of the effort of the former CEO Pat Gelsinger to save Intel. Gelsinger was forced by the board of directors in December, which appointed two temporary co-PDGs that have moved his next AI chip.
Any transaction between the historic competitors TSMC and Intel would be confronted with major challenges and would be expensive and laborious. The two companies are currently using processes, chemicals and configurations of very different fleas manufacturing tools in their factories, according to distinct sources of companies.
Intel previously had manufacturing partnerships with the Taiwan UMC and the semiconductor of the Israel Tower which could offer a precedent for the two companies to work together, but it is not clear how such a partnership would work concerning commercial manufacturing secrets.
According to one of the sources.
Reuters reported last week, citing sources, that Nvidia and Broadcom carry out manufacturing tests with Intel, using the most advanced production techniques of the company, known as 18A. AMD also assesses if the 18A 18A manufacturing process is suitable.
But 18a was an area of line in negotiations between Intel and TSMC, two sources said. During the talks in February, Intel leaders told TSMC that its 18A advanced manufacturing technology was greater than the 2 Nanometers of TSMC, according to these sources.
(Report by Fanny Potkin to Singapore, Milana Vinn, Anirban Sen and Karen Freifield in New York, Wen-Yee Lee in Taipei, Max A. Cherney and Stephen Nelis in San Francisco; additional report by Trevor Hunnicutt in Washington; edition by Kenneth Li and Jamie Freed)