In February, Intel Foundry Services signed up Altera as a customer.

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Chang got a foothold at another early leader, Texas Instruments, and says by the mid-1980s he had identified foundry services as a future industry need.

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Piper Jaffray analyst Auguste Richard this morning theorizes that the best option for Intel to make a dent in the mobile computing market would be for the company to start providing chip foundry services to Apple.

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