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| Intel wants to produce chips for car manufacturers |
Intel has proposed a plan to help auto makers address the global semiconductor shortage that has caused companies like General Motors to shut down.
The auto industry has long been one of the regions hardest hit by the global shortage of semiconductors, as parts shortages have forced automakers to stop production or modify cars.
The global shortage has reached the point where the Biden government wants to intervene. The president called for a review order for the semiconductor supply chain and welcomed the White House of Google, Google, Ford, General Motors, Dell and TSMC to Intel.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said in an interview with Reuters: “Intel could start producing semiconductors according to the automaker's requirements within six to nine months,” saying, “I've worked with car chip makers. The company is manufacturing chips.
He added: We hope that some of these things will be mitigated and it is not necessary to build factories in three to four years, but new products can come within six months and we have started negotiations with companies that manufacture chips that develop for car manufacturers. . We make our own potato chips in our own factories.
Although Intel fell short of its target of 6 to 9 months, this news shows just how important Intel is to its new business as a maker of chips for other companies.
The executive did not mention which companies Intel spoke to, but said they could be manufactured in plants in Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Israel or Ireland.
The plan is separate from Intel's $ 20 billion investment in chip makers for other chip designers announced last month.
Kissinger also met with the Biden administration at a White House meeting to discuss a semiconductor shortage.
Since February, the president has been thinking about how to solve this problem, telling Kissinger and other leaders that he is calling on Congress to allocate $ 50 billion to research and manufacture of semiconductors.
Intel is one of the last companies in the semiconductor industry to develop and manufacture its own chips.
The company said last month it was opening factories for outside customers and setting up plants in the United States and Europe to offset the dominance of Asian chip makers such as TSMC and Samsung Electronics.