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Altera has been with TSMC since forever, and in their latest chip they had disastrous results. TSMC just can't compete with Intel's process when it comes to making high quality digital chips. This is a VERY VERY good move for Altera, not sure about Intel though.

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Not sure if this is entirely accurate. Intel's process tend to be optimized towards high performance chips since this is where the big margins are.

I'm not sure they are ready to devote production capacity (and process development resources) towards very lower power products which are also less profitable.

That was one of the reasons they failed when trying to enter the cellular market.

> I'm not sure they are ready to devote production capacity (and process development resources) towards very lower power products which are also less profitable.

Isn't that what they're already doing? What about things like the Quarks used in the Galileo and the Edison?

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