Intel CEO rumored to visit TSMC in August to discuss revising 3nm production plan

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will travel to Taiwan to visit TSMC three times in August to revise the 3nm production plan.

Under the contract, TSMC's 3-nanometer process will be used to manufacture graphics chips for Intel, one of the chips used in Intel's 14th-generation Meteor Lake central processing units (CPUs).

Intel's 14th-generation Meteor Lake was originally scheduled to enter mass production by the end of 2022 and launched in the first half of 2023, but it is now rumored that it has been delayed until the end of 2023. Now that the Meteor Lake graphics chips have been outsourced to TSMC, Intel's delay is bound to disrupt TSMC's 3nm production plans.

WCCFTech reported that Intel has begun to "urgently revise" its platform blueprint for the next year and its "own process capacity plan". Under this circumstance, it is widely rumored that Ji Singer plans to visit Taiwan three times in August to meet with TSMC Chairman Liu Deyin and President Wei Zhejia to discuss revising the 3nm production plan.

According to the outsourcing contract signed by Intel and TSMC, TSMC will produce 3nm graphics chip blocks according to the schedule. However, if Intel's own Intel 4 computing chip blocks cannot be produced as scheduled due to "market conditions" and process technology issues, Intel hopes that TSMC will also delay production, and the resulting losses will be fully borne by Intel.