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Joanne Feeney

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
139 total appearances

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Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

And so I think it's a particularly risky bet.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

We have not owned Intel for clients.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

We think that the opportunity cost is just too high.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

You can own

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

Broadcom, which we've owned for 11 years for clients.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

You can own NVIDIA, which we've owned for clients since 2022.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

These are clearly market leaders, and they've ironed out the design challenges and through their partners like TSMC, the manufacturing challenges.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

And so they're delivering.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

And Intel faces now a chicken and an egg problem on the 14A process.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

Yeah, Intel's tried to enter the Foundry world.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

We've talked in the past about how challenging that is to move from producing your own chips to move to producing others.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

You need the design libraries and all that, but they fundamentally need the manufacturing process.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

And the problem that they face right now is that on the one hand, they're saying, hey, we don't want to invest the CapEx to build up this capacity until we have customers locked in.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

But customers aren't going to lock in unless they know they have a manufacturing process that works and that can deliver.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

Because you're designing a product.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

You're designing it years out.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

And you have to know the supply will be there if you commit to a certain manufacturing partner.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

So it's a real chicken and egg problem.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

They might have to bet on making it happen and being able to deliver the customers by getting that process up and running and showing that they can get yield up in volume, even in advance of locking down some customers.

Bloomberg Tech
Intel Falls as Manufacturing Snags Bedevil Comeback

So it's almost a bet the company kind of problem.