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Thursday, November 21, 2013 2:45:31 PM
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said on Thursday he planned to expand his company's small contract manufacturing business, paving the way for more chipmakers to tap into the world's most advanced process technology.
With Intel far behind rivals in making chips for smartphones and tablets, many on Wall Street have urged the company to expand its contract manufacturing business, which currently contributes little to its overall revenue, and to open its factories to high-volume clients making mobile chips.
"We're going to go much further. If we can utilize our silicon to provide the best computing, we'll do that," Krzanich told analysts. "People who can use our leading edge and build computing capabilities that are better than anyone else's - those are good candidates for our foundry service."
At his first annual investor day since taking over as chief executive in May, Krzanich said the slumping personal computer industry, Intel's core market, was showing signs of bottoming out.
"Our view is that it's declining but it's beginning to show signs of stabilization," he said.
Krzanich said that during his six-month tenure as CEO, Intel had improved its chip offerings for tablet makers and he pledged to quadruple the number of tablets with Intel chips in 2014.
Tablets with Intel chips would range in price from less than $100 to more than $400, he said, adding he recently gave every Intel board member a $149 Android tablet made with an Intel chip to demonstrate the progress the company was making in mobile.
Intel is the world's top chipmaker and it dominates the PC industry, but it was slow to adapt its processors for smartphones and tablets - markets now dominated by rivals like Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics .
Intel shareholders and its board are betting that Krzanich, a veteran from Intel's cutting-edge manufacturing operation who replaced retiring CEO Paul Otellini, will be able to steer the company back on track.
"When we began our search for the CEO a year ago ... I was embarrassed that we had lost our way," Intel Chairman Andy Bryant said at the event.
NEW CHIPS
Intel also unveiled two upcoming mobile chips from its Atom line designed to easily interchange features to create different versions of the component.
A high-end version of the new chip, codenamed Broxton, and is due out in mid-2015.
Krzanich pointed to SoFIA, a low-end version, as an example of Intel's new pragmatism and willingness to change how it does business. He said that in the interest of speed, SoFIA would initially be manufactured outside of Intel, with the goal of bringing it to market next year.
Intel will later move production of SoFIA chips to its own cutting-edge 14 nanometer manufacturing lines, Krzanich said.
Manufacturing chips on behalf of other companies is a major departure for Intel, which for decades had based its business on using its factory prowess to offer its own PC chips that were superior to rival products.
As PC sales shrink and Intel's fabrication plants operate at less than full capacity, Krzanich sees an opportunity to fill idle production lines while earning new revenue. He appears much more willing than his predecessor, Otellini, to open Intel's factories to a wide range of companies, including potential competitors.
Otellini agreed early this year for Intel to manufacture programmable chips on behalf of Altera , a Silicon Valley neighbor it does not compete with.
That deal, seen as allowing Intel to eventually take on larger customers, spurred speculation that Intel could do a much bigger deal to make iPhone or iPad chips for Apple , which currently depends on Samsung to manufacture its chips.
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