Nvidia Corp is apparently interested in joining hands with Intel Corp or the production of its chipsets. The news arrives from the former’s Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, who made that statement on a call with reporters earlier this week.

According to a Reuters report, Huang said that “They’re interested in us using their foundries. We’re very interested in exploring it.” Although, the senior official also said that the foundry discussions would take a long time since they would have to integrate their supply chains. Back in early 2021, Team Blue had stated that it will be expanding its business into chipmaking, rather than its primary chip designing business. In other words, it would be growing its plans for a foundry business.

Since then, the company has also announced several multi billion dollar projects to setup new manufacturing centers in the United States and even Europe. Notably, Intel’s shares also saw a rise of 2.5 percent following Huang’s comments. Recently, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told Reuters that it will be “thrilled for their interest in using our foundry capabilities.” However, he also added that there is currently “no particular timeline.”

But Gelsinger did confirm that the company is in talks with Nvidia. As per Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon, “I’m sure he’s interested in having more options … and it doesn’t cost him anything to say that. But it doesn’t tell you anything at all about what it’s actually going to look like when they get there.” At the moment, a majority of Nvidia’s chip production is done by the world’s largest contract chipmaker, TSMC. Interestingly, when asked about concerns for sharing company secrets with Intel, Huang said that he trusted the brand and added that “Intel has known our secrets for years.”

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Samsung Electronics, the world’s leading smartphone maker as well as one of the leaders in the chip manufacturing business, is reportedly all set to start construction of chip plant in the United States in the third quarter of this year.

The U.S. chip plant, which is estimated to cost around $17 billion, is expected to be operational by the year 2024. The report comes through Reuters which has cited a South Korean newspaper as its source.

It adds that Samsung is planning to apply an advanced 5-nanometer extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography chip-making process at the plant. While not yet confirmed by the company, the new plant is expected to be in Austin, Texas.

Documents filed with Texas state officials previously showed Samsung is considering Austin as one of the sites for a new $17 billion chip plant. As per the company’s own estimates, it will create around 1,800 jobs.

U.S. President Joe Biden has proposed $50 billion to support chip manufacturing, which has spurred companies like Intel Corp and contract manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to consider major new investments.

Recently, it was reported that TSMC could be planning to invest tens of billions of dollars for establishing cutting-edge chip factories in the United States, likely in the state of Arizona. As noted above, the moves comes after Joe Biden signed an executive order incentivizing manufacturers to shift base to the United States.

Samsung is the world’s largest memory chip producer and the second largest foundry firm. For the upcoming $17 billion foundry factory in the US, apart from Texas, it is also considering other locations, including Arizona and New York.

It’s noteworthy that the company already has a chip facility in Austin, Texas, but the need for additional U.S. investment emerged after its rival companies have moved ahead for capacity expansions. TSMC has announced that it will invest $100 billion over the next three years for capacity expansion.

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Samsung is one of the leading image sensor makers for smartphones, giving tough competition to Sony. The South Korean giant is the world’s second-largest company when it comes to supplying CMOS Image Sensors.

However, because of a serious shortage of image sensors in the market, Samsung has reportedly increased pricing by around 40 percent. And Samsung isn’t the only one to do so as other image sensor providers have also increased the pricing by around 20 percent.

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The report also adds that Samsung has significantly increased UMC’s 28nm ISP foundry orders to meet the demand. However, the company’s production capacity is in short supply at the foundry.

It is being said that the company is planning to invest in machine equipment and hand it over to United Microelectronics Corporation (aka UMC) for production to ensure higher capacity. The report further adds that the deal between these two companies is currently in the discussion phase.

Recently, it was also reported that Samsung is planning to cut down some of the DRAM production capacity as it wants to ensure that CMOS Image Sensor chips are available in the required quantity for the customers.

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