ExIntel CEO calls current Intel CEOs plans for chip factory investment a joke and wants Nvidia, Apple and Google to stump up the cash to save the fabs
News Source : PC Gamer
News Summary
- Craig Barrett was Intel CEO from 1998 to 2005.
- He was a hard-nosed, no-nonsense, five-blades kind of CEO.
- Barrett doesn't much like the idea that Intel's product design business and its chip factories should be split into two companies.
- Instead, he reckons Nvidia, Apple and Google should stump up the cash to save Intel's fabs.
- He also draws a parallel with government support for other domestic industries, and asks why chip manufacturing shouldn't be the same.
Intel CEO Lip Bu Tans plan to not invest in the upcoming 14A chip manufacturing node until customers sign up is a joke. Thats according to Intels former CEO, Craig Barrett. Oh, and Barrett doesnt [+4445 chars]
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