Replies to post #125436 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

are there additional key learnings that occur as part of the back-and-forth interaction between manufacturing engineers and design engineers that couldn't be obtained from a pure reverse engineering of the silicon itself?

That's hard to say. It would depend on how the foundry operation
was set up an run. I suspect that Intel would only offer a limited
subset of its processes (keeping its high performance MPU crown
jewels stuff off limits) to outsiders and would hire new customer
facing engineers for its foundry operation who had never worked
on their own design teams. The only process specific IP flow
would be from the process guys for things like ESD protection
structures.