The original plan was Intel’s Dalian fab, R&D, design team and their enterprise customers. But now they have abandoned the R&D, design, product, validation teams. Dalian fab is in jeopardy with sanctions. Enterprise customers have abandoned them.
Samsung and SK Hynix received permanent exceptions to sanctions for fabs already in China as long as its to maintain and do upgrades to non leading edge processes.
The original plan was Intel’s Dalian fab, R&D, design team and their enterprise customers. But now they have abandoned the R&D, design, product, validation teams. Dalian fab is in jeopardy with sanctions. Enterprise customers have abandoned them.
Samsung and SK Hynix received permanent exceptions to sanctions for fabs already in China as long as its to maintain and do upgrades to non leading edge processes.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/09/tech/south-korea-samsung-hynix-chips-waiver-hnk-intl/index.html
Exactly why. SK does not want to deal with sanctions.