{"id":614982,"date":"2026-06-08T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=614982"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:35:00","slug":"intel-jumps-on-report-google-placed-3-million-tpu-foundry-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=614982","title":{"rendered":"Intel Jumps On Report Google Placed 3 Million TPU Foundry Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Intel Jumps On Report Google Placed 3 Million TPU Foundry Order<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>After last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/futures-drop-souring-chipmaker-sentiment-kospi-plunge\">sharp sell-off in chip stocks<\/a>, the latest attempt to <strong>keep the AI bubble inflated<\/strong> comes from a report by The Information, which says Google has placed an order with Intel to manufacture more than 3 million Tensor Processing Units in 2028.<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/lol_5.png?itok=OimpObIt\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/lol_5.png?itok=OimpObIt\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"56ba6265-ef5f-4618-b812-ccdcd4c8a652\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"400\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/lol_5.png?itok=OimpObIt\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s TPU order with Intel is a big win for the struggling chip foundry as it tries to rebuild its empire in advanced chip production and compete with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/google-nvidia-consider-intel-backup-chip-manufacturer\">The Information&#8217;s Qianer Liu<\/a> writes that TSMC&#8217;s capacity constraints are turning into a boon for Intel as a backup manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that several major AI chip designers, including Nvidia, are turning to Intel as a potential backup manufacturer, but no orders from CEO Jensen Huang have been placed yet, as there is a testing phase to determine whether Intel&#8217;s technology can be used to produce advanced AI chips.<\/p>\n<p>The report from The Information sent Intel shares soaring in premarket trading, up nearly 12%. Shares had plunged into a bear market over the last month and were down about 9.5% last week.<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Snag_45e4f2f8.png?itok=gv-x4u7a\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Snag_45e4f2f8.png?itok=gv-x4u7a\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"d09aca91-3912-4c80-9c7e-08c1e819d04a\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"271\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/Snag_45e4f2f8.png?itok=gv-x4u7a\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shares of the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) were up nearly 5% in premarket trading. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index plunged 10% on Friday, the biggest one-day drop since March 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Snag_45e6ce30.png?itok=oAu6k-om\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Snag_45e6ce30.png?itok=oAu6k-om\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"af013edc-6308-443c-8e8b-dc1e0f4d2591\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"273\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/Snag_45e6ce30.png?itok=oAu6k-om\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among other notable movers: Nvidia +2.4%, AMD +2.8%, Micron +5.7%, Intel +2.5%, ARM +1.3%, U.S.-listed shares of TSMC +3.2%, Rambus +5.6%, Western Digital +4.3%, Marvell +8.7%, Microchip +2.9%, SanDisk +4.2%, Super Micro +5.8%, and Dell +1.5%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 06\/08\/2026 &#8211; 09:35<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/lol_5.png?itok=OimpObIt\" title=\"Intel Jumps On Report Google Placed 3 Million TPU Foundry Order\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel Jumps On Report Google Placed 3 Million TPU Foundry Order After last week&#8217;s sharp sell-off in chip stocks, the latest attempt to keep the AI bubble inflated comes from a report by The Information, which says Google has placed an order with Intel to manufacture more than 3 million Tensor Processing Units in 2028.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=614982\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Intel Jumps On Report Google Placed 3 Million TPU Foundry Order<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":614983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/614983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}