Taiwanese "TSMC" is considering acquiring a controlling interest in "Intel" at the request of Trump team

Taiwan is considering the TSMC to acquire a controlling interest in Intel factories at the request of Trump administration officials, according to a person familiar with the case, as the president looks forward to promoting US industrialization and maintaining US leadership in biotechnology. The person said that the Trump team had presented the idea of ​​the agreement between the two companies in recent meetings with Taiwanese Chips Manufacturing Enterprises, and Taiwan seemed to be a semiconductor, open to the case. It is not clear whether Intel is open to the agreement. The operation of “Intel” factories in America should be noted that the discussions are still in their early stages, and the exact structure of the potential partnership has not yet been identified. But the intended result is that the largest manufacturing business in the world in the world manages the Intel half -conductive factories in the United States, the person who asked not to disclose his identity for the privacy of the conversations. It will also deal with the concerns about the weakened “Intel” financial status, which forced the company to reduce jobs and reduce global expansion plans. The arrangement may include obtaining senior US chips designers royal quotas, according to the person, as well as the support of the US government. This means that the project will not only be owned by a foreign company. TSMC is the favorite chips of Apple and Invidia. And other companies that work to develop semiconductors used to operate artificial intelligence algorithms. TSMC and Intel, based in Santa Clara, California, refused to comment. The White House actor did not immediately respond to the request for comment. Intel shares reduced their losses on Friday after Bloomberg published the report on the discussions. The share dropped by less than $ 1% in New York after it fell by up to 5.3% earlier in the session. The strategic importance of “Intel”, although “Intel” has lost many of its market share against competitors over the past five years, the most used components are still used in personal computer industries and network servers. It also has the largest and latest production network owned by a company in the United States. These factories have gained a great strategic importance with Washington’s pursuit of reflecting the way from the semiconductor sector to Asia over the past decades. Intel, led by former CEO Pat Gilsengger, has launched an ambitious and expensive plan to restore her leadership in the field of slides. The company received the US government financing of $ 7.9 billion to support its projects in four states, along with $ 3 billion to produce slides for the US Army, the amount that is gradually paid when the company’s factories have specific criteria. Until January, “Intel” received $ 2.2 billion from this financing. But these efforts have not yet managed to attract a sufficient number of external customers that prove the feasibility of this size of investments, especially on the new website in Ohio. The Intel products themselves are still losing its share in the market and exacerbating the financial pressure on the business at a time when it needs a major spending. Last December, the board of directors forced Gilsengger to retire after losing confidence in his plan to save the company. Invested in the United States, although “Intel” has confirmed its commitment to investment in factories in the United States, even if it has withdrawn some foreign projects, officials in Washington have discussed alternative plans for months. Some of the options that the support of some members of US President Joe Biden, a possible agreement between ‘Intel’ and Global Foundres’, has, according to Bloomberg. According to the advanced manufacturing field, it did not have sufficient financial resources for years to obtain another company, and the discussions did not have the stage of an idea. According to people familiar with the US slide sector, he has threatened to set up these fees to support the manufacture of slides within the United States, abroad. 2022, led ‘Taiwan to manufacture semiconductor’, granting $ 6.6 billion to support the establishment of three factories in Phoenix. Taiwan provides America to the equipment of the electronic disc industry in record quantities, but it is the Trump administration during its first presidential term that began to attract ‘Taiwan to manufacture semiconductors’ to the United States, and that senior officials in that administration always confirmed their commitment to improving local manufacturing and China. The US Vice President GD -vers said during a top of artificial intelligence in Paris last week that the United States “will ensure the production of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems in the country using US manufactured and manufactured chips.” Has the position “TSMC” changed? The fact that “Taiwan to manufacture semiconductor” is open to an agreement with “Intel”, which indicates a change in its position compared to in recent months. Last October, analysts CEO CC Wei said his business was not interested in acquiring the Intel factories. But when he was asked again last January, he did not give an answer directly, and he said, “They are very good customers to us,” he added, “I admire them, and they are completely important for Taiwan’s work to produce semiconductors. That’s all I can say.”