According to tomshardware, a job posting on Intel's website revealed that in addition to Xe-HPG GPUs and Xe-HPC chips, TSMC will also manufacture Atom and Xeon chips for Intel.

"As a member of the QAT design team, you will serve as the RTL integration supervisor in the custom logic ASIC engineering group of DCG [Data Center Group]," the job description on the Intel website reads, "You will be based on Intel and TSMC’s SoC development and integration of QAT into Atom and Xeon play a key role. You will work with the IP/SoC integration team and the SoC design, verification and simulation team to ensure the integration verification of QAT IP.

Intel’s QuickAssist Technology (QAT) is a hardware IP designed to accelerate encryption and compression workloads. Over the years, Intel has integrated QAT IP into chipsets and SoCs. The company also offers QAT plug-in cards. Considering that security and compression technology are very important for various edge, network, storage and server applications, Intel integrates this hardware IP into all processors and SoCs of the device.

In the recruitment announcement, Intel did not disclose any details of the Atom and Xeon SoCs that will be produced by TSMC. Historically, Intel has outsourced the production of chipsets and the Atom SoC for external design of cheap mobile devices to TSMC. With the company's acquisition of a number of chip manufacturers using TSMC technology, such as Altera, the relationship between Intel and TSMC has been strengthened.

For Intel, it is quite reasonable to outsource professional SoCs that can use TSMC's cutting-edge technology. These chips must compete with similar products from other companies that will also be produced by TSMC. Therefore, they may have more advantages than SoCs manufactured using Intel's 10nm process.

Although Intel only confirmed its plan to outsource part of its SoC production to TSMC, it is necessary to point out that Intel sells too many processors to outsource any important production to TSMC. Although TSMC is the world's largest chip foundry manufacturer, its cutting-edge capacity is limited. In addition to its existing customers, it may not have enough capacity to serve Intel.