In everyone's impression, Intel (Intel) and ARM are dead rivals. The former is the overlord of desktop platforms, while the latter occupies mobile platforms. Both of them want to invade each other's fields, but neither of them has made significant progress so far.

But as early as August 2016, Intel signed a licensing agreement with ARM, and the former will produce chips for the latter. Intel's first 10nm production line will be launched by the end of the year, and will begin to produce chips for ARM customers.

Behind this seemingly impossible cooperation is the reduction of the number of top wafer fabs in the past 10 years. Now only Intel, Global Foundries (AMD camp), Samsung and TSMC are left with top process production capacity. However, the capacity of the wafer factory built by Intel with an investment of 10 billion dollars is so large that even Intel's own chip business cannot fully use the factory's capacity, so Intel began to consider chip production for other manufacturers.

Although it sounds strange to contract chips to chip manufacturers in the ARM camp, Intel doesn't have many customers to choose from, either in the ARM chip field, AMD, or Nvidia, a video card manufacturer. However, Qualcomm is now using Samsung OEM, while Nvidia is using TSMC, so there is no direct competition with Apple A series chips in the ARM field.

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