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Intel Foundry Services Wins US Defense Contract for Chips with 18A Node
www.tomshardware.com, Aug. 23, 2021 –
The U.S. Department of Defense has inked a deal with Intel for the company to provide commercial foundry services for the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes - Commercial (RAMP-C) program.
Intel Foundry Services (IFS), a new Intel division that offers the company's chip manufacturing services to chip designers, will work with the Department of Defense to create a foundry ecosystem to produce leading-edge "custom and integrated circuits and commercial products" for DoD systems, with the initial test chips being fabbed on Intel's 18A node. The dollar value of the contract is currently unknown, but we've reached out to Intel for details.
Intel will work with other industry stalwarts, like IBM, Cadence, and Synopsys, among others, to develop a semiconductor IP system that supports designing and manufacturing chips, with the first test chips using Intel's 18A process, which Intel cites as its most advanced node. However, Intel's 18A will be the company's second-gen Angrstrom-class process node and won't be available until early 2025, signaling this is a long-term contract. Intel will not ship the first generation of its Angstrom-class chips, 20A, until 2024.
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