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by mike_hearn 814 days ago
It's not just financial engineering. It's a key step towards their goal of splitting the foundry and design businesses apart. They already manufacture chips they design on other people's foundries, and manufacture chips other people designed on their foundries. That's step one. Step two is to make both sides independently profitable.

At some point Intel might conceivably split into two fully separate companies.