Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is reshaping the chipmaker's engineering culture and foundry strategy, confirming that 14A remains on track while revealing that early development has begun on next-generation 10A and 7A nodes.

Lip-Bu Tan wants Intel to radically improve its chip development discipline and achieve production readiness with A0 silicon revision.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan recently told CNBC's Mad Moneythat the company's external manufacturing business, known as Intel Foundry, is emerging as a cornerstone of the chipmaker's revitalization strategy. Tan described the foundry initiative as a "national treasure," emphasizing its role in rebuilding advanced semiconductor production capacity within the US after decades of manufacturing dominance in A

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Intel's reported preliminary agreement to manufacture some chips for Apple devices would mark a major validation point for CEO Lip-Bu Tan's effort to rebuild the US chipmaker's foundry business. It would not, however, resolve the deeper manufacturing, cost, and organizational challenges still standing between Intel and a full-scale comeback.

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