MediaTek and Intel have introduced that some MediaTek processors will likely be manufactured via Intel Foundry Services and products (IFS). Recently, this production association will worry “sensible edge gadgets,” a horny imprecise description that might surround anything else attached to a Wi=Fi/4G/5G wi-fi community.
That mentioned, IFS recently operates 22nm (nanometer) Fabs, which might serve MediaTek’s Wi-Fi chipset line of goods, for instance. We don’t have sufficient knowledge to evaluate which merchandise Intel will paintings on.
It’s a large win for the younger (2021) Intel foundry products and services industry as MediaTek has accrued numerous momentum previously two years, breaking data quarter after quarter. MediaTek has introduced extraordinarily aggressive platforms with a vital marketplace percentage within the sensible gadgets industry.
From MediaTek’s perspective, it’s a diversification transfer as Intel is anticipated to extend/open production vegetation (“Fabs”) in the US and Europe. Such diversification would offer protection to MediaTek from supply-chain shocks as we’ve observed for the reason that Pandemic or attainable geopolitical problems associated with Taiwan.
Unsurprisingly, MediaTek recently contracts TSMC in Taiwan to fabricate maximum of its chips. Even supposing TSMC does a stellar production activity, it’s so large that it generally is a unmarried logistical choke level if any disaster occurs. Geopolitics apart, Taiwan may be topic to Typhoons, droughts, and Earthquakes.
It’s going to most likely take years for the semiconductor business to surpass the present supply-chain problems. Alternatively, the diversification plans would make it a lot more resilient than it’s as of late, even supposing the economics is probably not as optimal as pre-2020.
