14 DAY TRIAL // For a long time, Intel made processors only for itself, but the company decided, a while ago, to start a foundry business, not unlike TSMC and Globalfoundries.
Making custom chips for various clients is a different cup of tea from making your own though, and Intel knows this.
That is why it has posted job offers in jobs.intel.com for hundreds of new employees.
The workers would cover various positions in Intel manufacturing sites across the US.
More specifically, the Intel Custom Foundry positions that need to be filled vary from physical verification engineer to design automation engineer.
No word yet on whether or not Intel already has manufacturing contracts set up, although there is a rumor about Apple.
“The [foundry] business is going as expected. We are going slowly and learning,” Chuck Mulloy, a spokesman for Intel, told X-bit labs.