IAN: How will you bring that gross margin up? How will you convince potential foundry customers they will get priority in wafer starts when they need them? That has always been the challenge in years past when Intel has talked about starting a foundry business. The concern among potential customers was, “How do we know you will get the wafer starts you promised? How do we know you won’t prioritize your own products?” Secondly, do they have the extensive libraries they need to build chips for other companies? That is a set of libraries that have obviously built up over many, many years and decades at TSMC and Samsung, but it’s new for Intel. Can they execute to build other companies' products as well as they do for their own?
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