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Intel launches a fund of 1,000 million to support chip designers

Intel wants to support startups interested in chip design and new processors. To this end, the multinational has just announced that it is launching a program endowed with 1,000 million dollars, which will have the objective of financing the development of most interesting initiatives in this field.

This program will also serve as a form of support for companies that need help validating chip design ideas for all types of advanced architectures, including x86, ARM and RISC-V. In this sense, one of the main objectives of this initiative is to advance in the design of future 3D chips that offer greater integration in different types of processing cores.

As an example, from Intel they explain that some chip designs are betting on combining robust ARM cores with RISC-V management cores while other designs are inclined to include multiple chips manufactured with different process nodes in a single “package”.

In a public statement, Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, stated that “customers in this industry are rapidly adopting a modular design approach that enables them to differentiate their products and accelerate time to market”

In this sense, the company ensures that “Intel Foundry Services is well positioned to lead this important change in our industry. With our new investment fund and our open chip platform, we can help drive the ecosystem to develop disruptive technologies around the world. spectrum of chip architectures”.

As part of this same announcement, the company has declared that last Monday it became a main member of the RISC-V International consortium, which oversees the design and direction of an architecture that, together with ARM, increasingly interests the company.

Both architectures are gaining weight both in the field of computers and personal devices as well as in that of servers, so it hopes that its future factories will also be a space in which they coexist with that x86 architecture that is a trademark of the house.

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