Qualcomm has enlisted for Intel’s new Foundry Services business, making it the first major customer. Weirdly Qualcomm is also a chipmaker, but majorly for snapdragon that runs most Andriod phones.
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Intel on the other hand will be manufacturing Chips for the company using its new 20A process.
The Intel 20A process has a new transistor architecture, that will be unveiled in 2024.
Asides from Qualcomm, Amazon’s AWS is another customer for Intel Foundry Sevices, but Intel won’t be making chips for Amazon directly.
Interestingly, The company is ready to rival Apple’s M1 chips, with plans to create its own Laptop chips.
The new CEO of Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon predicts It can produce the best laptop chip in the future. The company recent $1.4 billion purchase of Processor startup Nuvia.
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The Chip company also looks to leverage on the executives that have worked previously at Apple. Despite creating mobile android based chips, Qualcomm used to license these chips from ARM. It now designs its own mobile chips.
Nuvia Founder Gerard Williams was the lead designer for Apple’s iOS chips before he left the company.
He currently now works as the senior vice president of engineering and will be responsible for making sure they make industry-breaking chips that compete with Apple’s M1 chips.
Qualcomm is solely focused on the laptop chip-making market, interestingly it currently supplies Apple iPhones 12 series with 5G connectivity.
The company has made bold moves to back up its claims and they are open to collaborations in order to make things fall in place.
Apple has once again made itself the industry standard when it comes to designs and efficiency, the M1 chips have seen intense rivalry not from Intel.
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