Intel Corp. Expects to Sample 10-Nano FPGAs in 2018
In 2013, chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and programmable logic chip vendor Altera announced a collaboration whereby Intel would manufacture chips Altera designs. This move, Altera hoped, would give it an edge over rival Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX), which relies on contract chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE: TSM) to build its chips.
Altera's pitch to investors was simple: Since Intel's then-upcoming 14-nanometer chip manufacturing technology was superior to TSMC's then-upcoming 16-nanometer chip technology, Altera could leverage Intel's technology to build better products than Xilinx could, thereby driving market share gains for Altera.
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