Outgoing CEO Paul Otellini, among other executives, have typically hung caveats on the foundry idea.
In other words, the foundry operations will potentially be hampered by inertia, internal debate and inconsistency.
Simple foundry business, just making chips to the designs of others, is pretty low margin stuff.
GlobalFoundries, a foundry similar to TSMC, is making cautious statements of support for now.
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Besides its mining outfit, the company has an engineering division which makes machinery and foundry parts.
Xilinx, he points out, uses that facility as well, along with a Toshiba foundry in Oita.
Weir said the move would enable it to add foundry capacity to serve the Asia-Pacific region.
Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Broadcom all outsource the production of their designs to foundry businesses.
Federal authorities arrested David Riley, 47, a former vice president at Foundry Networks Inc.
Institutional Venture Partners, Foundry Ventures and Avalon Ventures each own 6.1% of Class B Stock.
Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Foundry Group, Avalon Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures.
Eight of the bells were made in a foundry in Villedieu-les-Poeles, a town in Normandy.
At the Sandbox Industries Foundry, companies such as Lab42 are started internally by Founders-in-Residence.
Besides the new fab in Borneo, this year they also opened a foundry on the mainland.
The foundry expects to offer the 14XM to chip makers in volume in 2014.
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You could imagine the type of customers a separate foundry company could attract Apple, Qualcomm, Cisco, even ARM.
These hackathons are just for developers in the Explorer program and we're calling them the Glass Foundry.
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"I'm talking to the foundry to make sure the new statue can't be stolen again, " she added.
That may be so, but right now, EncodeThis and Sonic Foundry have some catching up to do.
Brad Feld, co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, weighed in during a recent interview with Benzinga.
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Other, more important names that have been floated as potential Intel foundry customers include Cisco, Brocade, and Apple.
Other sites include Taylor's Bell Foundry in Loughborough and the Chapel of St John the Baptist in Derbyshire.
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It costs Intel, the industry giant, several billion dollars to build a foundry to make new-generation computer chips.
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New order composition was: foundry 72 percent, logic and other 12 percent, flash 12 percent, and DRAM 4 percent.
It occupies a central position in Rotherham town centre, on the site of the former Guest and Chrimes foundry.
Weir also announced it had acquired the business and assets of the Cheong foundry in Malaysia on 6 February.
He thinks 2013 foundry spending could drop 15%-20% year-over-year in 2013, while consensus is for flat to up 10%.
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It designs chips and has them done out by either TSMC or Globalfoundries, the second largest foundry after TSMC.
We are definitely viewing the Foundry as a piece of the endgame but definitely not a replacement of it.
Lab42 has been fortunate to continue to work out of the Sandbox Industries Foundry since our inception in 2010.
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