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Intel Editorial: Expansion of Intel’s Foundry Partnerships is a Critical Piece of IDM 2.0
Intel’s access to the industry’s broadest selection of process technologies and advanced packaging capabilities provides unmatched flexibility. SANTA CLARA,
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nIntel’s access to the industry’s broadest selection of process technologies and advanced packaging capabilities provides unmatched flexibility.\n\n SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nThe following is an opinion editorial by Stuart Pann, a senior vice president in the Corporate Planning Group at Intel Corporation.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210819005215/en/Stuart Pann is a senior vice president in the Corporate Planning Group at Intel Corporation. (Credit: Intel Corporation)\nThis week my colleague Raja Koduri hosted Architecture Day, where he and a group of Intel’s architects and engineers unpacked details behind the new product architectures that will power our leadership roadmap, starting with Alder Lake later this year. The breadth of new architectures is indicative of the world we live in – a world where the demand for more compute performance is endless and customer workloads are larger, more complex and more diverse than ever.\n\nStaying ahead of this demand will increasingly need a mix of architectures. Graphics processing units are a great example. While graphics is not new territory for Intel, we have reinvigorated our efforts to build a scalable microarchitecture to support a range of graphics processing applications. At Architecture Day, we featured two upcoming graphics products: Intel® Arc™, our new gaming discrete system-on-chip (SoC) based on the Xe HPG microarchitecture that can scale to enthusiast-class solutions, and Ponte Vecchio, our Xe HPC microarchitecture for high performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads.\n\nMore: Intel Architecture Day 2021 (Press Kit) | Intel Advances Architecture for Data Center, HPC-AI and Client Computing (Raja Koduri Editorial) | Intel Unveils Biggest Architectural Shifts in a Generation for CPUs, GPUs and IPUs (Architecture Day Fact Sheet)\n\nSignificant elements of these graphics products will be manufactured externally, using TSMC’s N6 and N5 process technologies. This is the basis of a question I hear frequently in my role as leader of the newly formed Corporate Planning Group – where one of our jobs is to manage the relationships with our external foundry partners.\n\nI’m asked: Why do we use foundries for products instead of our internal factory network and how do we mak...