It doesn't sound like they're designing a new line of silicon, but rather offering up pure fab to someone like Infineon for Aurix or Renesas for R-Car or whatever their stuff is called lately.
Whether or not that's plausible or a marketing play, I'm not sure (since nobody outside of Intel really knows the details about Intel's process constraints), but it doesn't sound like they are targeting an area of competition where they would be introducing new silicon and expecting a whole iteration lifecycle. The intent seems to be drop-in replacements.
Whether or not that's plausible or a marketing play, I'm not sure (since nobody outside of Intel really knows the details about Intel's process constraints), but it doesn't sound like they are targeting an area of competition where they would be introducing new silicon and expecting a whole iteration lifecycle. The intent seems to be drop-in replacements.