Intel attracts interest for test chips using new manufacturing process

Intel said on Tuesday that several of its contract manufacturing customers planned to build test chips for a forthcoming advanced manufacturing process, which the company still has in development. The embattled chipmaker indicated it had received interest from customers at the company’s Direct Connect conference for its contract chip business, or foundry. Intel’s attempt to build a foundry unit has hit snags but ultimately the goal has been to rival TSMC.

Upon taking the CEO job in March, Lip-Bu Tan vowed to reshape Intel and at his first public…