Alphabet taps Intel to make three million in-house chips, The Information reports

The news is "evidence ​that AI's biggest players are racing to diversify ‌a supply chain still heavily concentrated in TSMC," said Jacob Bourne, technology analyst at eMarketer. Since Tan took charge, Intel has secured billions of dollars of investments from the Trump administration, Nvidia and SoftBank. It also landed Tesla as the first major customer for its next-generation 14A manufacturing process to make chips for Elon Musk's Terafab project, an advanced AI chip complex

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The approval was granted despite ... impacts, water use and the scale of incentives being offered. However, county officials cited the project's economic benefits and its potential to establish a major new semiconductor manufacturing hub in Texas. If completed, Terafab would rank ...

Intel’s Chen Liwu puts a doctoral cap on Jensen Huang and simultaneously reveals: Collaborating with Nvidia on “exciting new products.”

Against this background, Intel’s foundry business is becoming an important option for NVIDIA to seek diversified capacity. Intel has recently secured foundry orders from TeraFab and Apple, which the market sees as key milestones in restoring external customer confidence in its foundry business, and has also laid a foundation for attracting major clients like NVIDIA.

Intel's Lip-Bu Tan conferred Jensen Huang with an honorary doctorate, while simultaneously revealing: 'We are collaborating with NVIDIA on an exciting new product.'

Against this backdrop, Intel’s contract manufacturing business is emerging as a key option for NVIDIA to diversify its production capacity. Intel recently secured contract manufacturing orders from TeraFab and Apple, which the market views as critical milestones in rebuilding external client confidence in its foundry operations, laying the groundwork to attract major clients like NVIDIA.

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The joint Terafab chip facility, the analysts wrote, “further ties both operations together,” and represents a first step toward merging them. Ives has described the project as the connective tissue between Musk’s companies rather than a standalone Tesla effort.