MediaTek and Intel Foundry Services (IFS) announced a strategic partnership. For MediaTek, IFS represents a way to diversify its semiconductor supply chain. For IFS, the announcement adds considerable weight to Intel’s fledgling semiconductor foundry business.
Today, fabless semiconductor supplier MediaTek and Intel Foundry Services announced a strategic partnership. MediaTek designs and markets systems-on-chips for smartphones and other mobile devices, home entertainment systems, and IoT products. Intel and MediaTek have been working together for at least a few years. Back in late 2019, Intel and MediaTek announced a collaboration to bring 5G modems into ‘always connected’ PCs and laptops.
For IFS, the announcement of a major application-specific IC supplier like MediaTek as a foundry partner and customer adds considerable weight to Intel’s fledgling semiconductor foundry business. MediaTek will be using the Intel 16 process node for its initial chips. Intel 16 is an enhanced version of the process node that Intel previously called 22FFL. Intel’s was the first commercial semiconductor process to use FinFETs when the company announced its 22nm node in 2011.
According to IFS, Intel 16 will be ready for customer tapeouts later this year, with a planned volume-production ramp in early 2023. IFS says it will make the more advanced Intel 3 and Intel 18A process nodes available to customers later. Current plans are for the Intel 3 process node to be ready in 2H 2023, followed by Intel 18A in 2H 2024. The rapid cadence of new process nodes underscores Intel’s desire to continue pushing Moore’s Law along.
Depending on your viewpoint, the Intel 4 process node either revives or sustains Moore’s Law by increasing transistor density by a factor of two relative to the company’s Intel 7 process node, which Intel had previously referred to as “10nm Enhanced SuperFin.” In addition to the increase in transistor density, Intel 4 delivers a 20% performance gain relative to Intel 7, while running at the same power-consumption levels. However, IFS will not be offering Intel 4 to its foundry customers.
Although MediaTek says that it initially plans to use IFS to manufacture multiple chips for smart edge devices, the company also asserts that its smartphone chips power nearly one of every three mobile phones currently sold. MediaTek has been Arm’s lead partner for mobile designs and its Dimensity 9000 5G chipset, which is based on the Arm v9 platform, is manufactured in TSMC’s N4 process technology.
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