A plan, some fabs and a ban

There is a theory that Intel is more a manufacturing than a semiconductor company. As others have outsourced, Intel has continued to build new fabs and invest in the latest processes for its own devices. It may now be doing some foundry work ?? it will build FPGAs at 22nm for startup Achronix Semiconductor, for example ?? but it sees as more important the controls over pricing and technology that comes from owning your own factories.