Intel Taiwan’s rivals Produce semiconductor Co. And broadcom is any possible deal that will break the US chipmking icon into two, reported on Saturday Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the issue.
Broadcom has closely examined the Intel Chip design and marketing business, the newspaper reported, adding that the company had discussed a possible offer with its advisers, but is likely to continue only if it found a partner for Intel production business .
TSMC, the world’s largest chipmaker, has studied separately by checking some or all Intel chip plants, potentially as part of an investor consortium or other structure, the report states.
Broadcom and TSMC are not working together, and all the talks so far are preliminary and largely informal, the magazine added.
The Interim Executive Chairman of Intel, Frank Yeary, has led discussions with potential researchers and officials of the Trump administration, who are concerned about the fate of a first company as critical for national security, the report said.
Yeary has told individuals near him that he is more focused on the value of Intel shareholders, the report added.
Intel, Broadcom, TSMC and White House did not respond immediately to Reuters’ demands for comment.
A White House official told Reuters on Friday that President Trump’s administration may not support US Intel Chip factories operated by a foreign entity after Bloomberg reported that TSMC was thinking of receiving controlling control in Intel factories with Trump’s request.
The White House official said the Trump administration supported foreign companies investing and building in the US but it was “impossible” to support a foreign firm operating Intel factories.
Bloomberg reported that the Trump team raised the idea of an agreement between the two firms in recent meetings with officials from TSMC who were host, citing a person acquainted with the matter.
Intel was one of the biggest beneficiaries of US push for him in the offshore the production of critical chips led by the Biden administration.
The US Trade Department said in November that a government subsidy of $ 7.86 billion for Intel was completing. The company is one of several chipmakers that design and produce semiconductors.
TSMC boasts a market valuation about eight times larger than Intel. Taiwanese company customers include the leader of AI Chip Nvidia and AMD, which is a fierce Intel rival in PC markets and servers.
Intel Pat Gelsinger, who collapsed last year, set high heaven expectations for the production of Intel and the abilities of the big but short customers, leading to chipmaker losing or canceling contracts, reported Reuters before.
Intel shares lost about 60% of their value last year as its capital intensity offer to strengthen production-a strategy sampled by Gelsinger-tuned the company’s cash flow and eventually led to reduced for about 15% of force its work
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