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Intel Opening Foundry To Third Parties

Posted by Unknown on from the open-the-trigate dept.

angry tapir writes "Intel is exploring whether it can branch out as a foundry by opening its chip manufacturing facilities to more third-party customers. Intel has expanded its chip-to-order business by signing up additional customers to take advantage of its 22-nanometer process facilities." In particular, two FPGA design companies will be using Intel's fabrication plant, and "the unit has more than two customers but others are not disclosing their plans yet."

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  1. I wonder by squidflakes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Any slashdotters familiar enough with FPGAs to know if they could be used to create digital camera sensors?

    One thing that's been lacking from digital photography is an "affordable" large format digital camera that is good for anything other than still life. Currently, if you are going to do large format digital, you have to use a back that takes an optical scan of your ground glass, and that can take up to 30 seconds.