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Intel 'Did Not Know How To Be a Foundry,' Tim Cook Told TSMC Chief

Wednesday January 29, 2025. 09:50 PM , from Slashdot
Intel 'Did Not Know How To Be a Foundry,' Tim Cook Told TSMC Chief
TSMC founder Morris Chang says Apple CEO Tim Cook rejected Intel as a chip manufacturer in 2011 because the company lacked foundry expertise, despite being Apple's main supplier for Mac processors at the time. During a pause in TSMC-Apple talks to evaluate Intel's proposal, Cook told Chang that 'Intel just does not know how to be a foundry,' leading Apple to eventually choose TSMC as its exclusive chip supplier, the TSMC founder revealed in an interview.

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