He may be able to get it done, but they've been trying waaay before that. I'm not sure where the history started, but they were trying in 2007. I hope they can make it happen.
They need to try a lot harder. They presented to us some 10+ years ago when they had a go at this market previously. The meeting was a waste of time. Their IP was non-existent, we didn't even do the follow up to hear about packaging. They had no idea what was required.
Exactly. The IP portfolios that TSMC has is huge. You can go to Cadence, Synopsys, or TSMC themselves and get PLLs, serdes PHYs for PCI Express, USB, HDMI, DDR 3/4/5, LPDDR, etc.
Is Intel going to let a customer use their internal IP?
Most of the third party IP for TSMC is based on around ARM and the AXI / AMBA bus specs to quickly integrate. I've heard that Intel's blocks use an Intel specific bus so you would need a bunch of translation shims.
Do you remember when Intel ported the Atom CPU to TSMC 40nm around 2009? They had to pre approve every design and it couldn't be in devices with larger than a 7" screen and all kinds of ridiculous nonsense. I later read articles that they did not have a single customer license the Atom in TSMC's process. Then they decided to make Atom powered mobile phone chips and basically paid a couple of companies to design them. Then no one wanted them. On top of that there were Android apps that used native ARM code and not just Java. So Intel had to make an ARM to x86 emulator for that.
Intel is great at making server / desktop / laptop chips and pushing the industry forward with new specs and standards like USB. But I don't trust them to understand or follow through on anything else