When reading headline I was thinking about Intel removing its competitor. Then I searched a bit and found this:
“ Tower Semiconductor Ltd. is an Israeli company that manufactures integrated circuits using specialty process technologies, including SiGe, BiCMOS, SOI, mixed-signal and RFCMOS, CMOS image sensors, non-imaging sensors, power management, and non-volatile memory as well as MEMS capabilities.”<p>Looks like that Intel wants to go deeper in foundry business offering more services. I can speculate, that Intel has very good silicon process for logic circuits and will improve their offerings with technology from this acquisition. Sounds like a reasonable strategy to me.
For anyone interested in the topic of semiconductors industry this channel provides some great info and explanations: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbkFAO1oUu8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbkFAO1oUu8</a>
Intel has a clear strategy of becoming a big player in the semiconductor industry in the next decade. I honestly think it will work. Many people have observed that it is a cash-intensive industry with tiny margins, but once these huge investments have been made and there are only two or three companies that can dominate the market for five to ten years, you can extract huge value before any competitor catches up.
> manufactures integrated circuits using specialty process technologies, including SiGe, BiCMOS, SOI, mixed-signal and RFCMOS, CMOS image sensors, non-imaging sensors, power management, and non-volatile memory<p>Aren't these the kinds of technologies used to produce the kinds of chips that are in great shortage atm?<p>Or perhaps a better way of stating what I'm trying to say is... aren't these the kinds of technologies that could be used to produce chips that can replace those that are in great shortage atm?<p>Not as dependent on highly advanced lithography machinery from the likes of ASML, but not so ancient as those that have recently stopped churning out the same basic chips after 20-30 years.
Intel will succeed as long as it isn’t grossly mismanaged simply because the US government needs them to succeed. I’m also surprised they don’t pressure Apple to start building fabs in the US as well considering they own the entire stack now.
Is this Intel’s PASemi moment or something entirely different?<p>Remember PASemi were the folks Apple bought that gave us the A series chips and made Apple the chip powerhouse it is today.
Scooped you by 21 hours: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30344944" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30344944</a><p>I think this comment will be downvoted, but just want to run the experiment to be sure. I'll delete if so .. No worries.