Despite earlier announcements that Intel will actually be first to make ARM's 64-bit chips, Intel also plans to expand its contract foundry work. In a recent interview with analysts, Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich revealed its plan to expand company's rather small contract manufacturing.

Intel apparently has no problems with giving its own manufacturing capabilities to other companies, even some of the rivals. The decision does not actually come as a surprise considering that Intel core market, selling its own chips, has not been doing great lately due to market situation. He noted that company’s who can use Intel’s leading edge and build computing capabilities that are better than anyone else's, are good candidates for foundry service.

Intel also used an opportunity to announce two new upcoming mobile chips based on the Atom design, a high end Broxton as well as the SoFIA, a low-end chip. The Broxton is scheduled to appear in mid-2015 while SoFIA will actually be manufactured outside of Intel and should be brought to market sometime next year. The SoFIA is actually quite a move for Intel and definitely shows company's willingness to change.

Intel also plans to move the production of SoFIA to its own foundries as soon as it reaches 14nm.

Source: via Fudzilla.com.