Intel ‘Acutely Aware’ of Challenges to Regaining Chips Lead: AEI

There’s “a lot riding” on Intel’s “high-risk, high-payoff struggle” to retake its lead as the world’s top semiconductor manufacturer, blogged American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Claude Barfield Wednesday. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger “forcefully attempted” to close his company’s “technology gap” with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung by entering the foundry business “despite Intel’s earlier manufacturing missteps,” said Barfield. “Intel must overcome internal production issues and resulting customer wariness that it will deliver on time with sustainable quality.” Gelsinger and his team “are acutely aware of these challenges and have moved to have engineers and technical talent carefully shepherd customers through the future manufacturing process,” he said.