The chief govt of Intel Corp. informed Reuters on Monday the corporate is in talks to start out producing chips for carmakers to alleviate a shortage that has idled automotive factories.
CEO Pat Gelsinger stated the corporate is speaking to corporations that design chips for automakers about manufacturing these chips inside Intel’s manufacturing unit community, with the objective of manufacturing chips inside six to 9 months. Gelsinger earlier on Monday met with White Home officers to debate the semiconductor provide chain.
Intel is likely one of the final corporations within the semiconductor business that each designs and manufactures its personal chips. The corporate last month said it will open its factories as much as outdoors prospects and construct factories in the USA and Europe in a bid to counter the dominance of Asian chip producers akin to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung Electronics Co.
However Gelsinger stated Monday that he informed White Home officers throughout the assembly that Intel will open its present manufacturing unit community to auto chip corporations to offer extra quick assist with a scarcity that has disrupted meeting traces at Ford Motor Co. and Basic Motors.
“We’re hoping that a few of these issues might be alleviated, not requiring a three- or four-year manufacturing unit construct, however possibly six months of latest merchandise being licensed on a few of our present processes,” Gelsinger stated. “We have begun these engagements already with among the key parts suppliers.”
Gelsinger didn’t identify the element suppliers however stated that the work may happen at Intel’s factories in Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Israel or Eire.