[rathel]

Intel did offer foundry services, at least 3 years ago or so, albeit designing stuff for that node required putting everything in separated environment, and simulating in separate compute farms. Even TSMC which was and is far ahead does not demand this level of paranoia, only documentation is put in secure isolated environment, other stuff being managed in the more reasonable way of unix groups, which are, well, good enough.

[fouric]

Isn't the difference that Intel is actually protecting its chip IP, whereas TSMC just fabs other peoples' chips and isn't in the business themselves?

[rathel]

Just designing on their node as a foundry customer.