Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger pledges a return to greatness through chip design

On Tuesday, newly minted Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger outlined his vision for returning Intel to greatness: a manufacturing strategy called “IDM 2.0” that will impact Intel’s development of 7nm chips, including the upcoming Meteor Lake.

At its heart, Gelsinger’s IDM 2.0 is about fabs: building two new fabs in Arizona to help alleviate worldwide semiconductor supply concerns; establishing a brand-new Intel Foundry Services business to sell chips from those fabs to other customers; and, conversely, creating a culture where Intel will turn to other chip foundries to manufacture products that it can’t manufacture itself.

Intel’s new Intel Foundry Services will offer design services that incorporate processor technologies that Intel hasn’t traditionally touted: the open-source RISC-V architecture, but also Arm. Intel is a current Arm licensee, but it hasn’t developed an Arm CPU since the StrongARM chip was discontinued in the early 2000s.

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