The Bet That Killed Intel: Inside AMD and TSMCs Secret Alliance @BehindAsia
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Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
In the mid-2010s, AMD was a struggling underdog, and Intel was the invincible king of the CPU world. What changed? Lisa Su's bet-the-company decision to abandon other foundries and go all-in on a deep, strategic partnership with TSMC, at the exact moment Intel's own manufacturing was beginning to crumble.

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The Bet That Killed Intel: Inside AMD and TSMC's Secret Alliance

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