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Intel Arc hardware is manufactured by TSMC, specifically on N6 and N5 for this latest announcement.

Intel doesn't currently have nodes competitive with TSMC or excess capacity in their better processes.



Serious question, why don't they have excess capacity? They aren't producing many CPUs...that people want.


Hard to have excess capacity when your latest fabs aren't able to produce anything reliably.

They don't even have competitive capacity for all their CPU needs. They have negative spare capacity overall.


Because their production capacity is much smaller than TSMC, it's declined over the past few years, and their newer nodes are having yield issues.




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