Intel Announces Plans To Acquire Tower Semiconductor

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Announces Plans To Acquire Tower Seminconductor

One day after AMD completed its acquisition of Xilinx, Intel has announced this morning they plan to acquire Tower Semiconductor...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Acquire-Tower-Semi

[tildearrow]

Typo:

and a fab in California from when itm erged with Jazz Technologies in 2008.

[plonoma]

Good choice, this is big news. It's very interesting Intel acquired silicon-germanium (SiGe) semiconductor IP.
SiGe is a direct bandgap semiconductor. Switching and clocks might be significantly faster on the same process node than silicon. And although some processes go ten times as fast, a tenfold multiplier for processor clocks might be a tad too optimistic.
Maybe Intel could finally make that 20+GHz Pentium processor they thought they would make 20 years ago.