Intel, (NASDAQ:INTC),has faced significant challenges in 2024, with shares plummeting over 57% while the S&P 500 has risen approximately 18%. The company’s struggles primarily stem from its underperforming foundry business, which manufactures chips both fo...

Intel’s partnership with AWS is part of the chipmaker’s attempt to play catch-up. The new deal, along with a $3 billion grant from the US government to boost domestic chip making and make chips for the US military, “demonstrates the continued progress we are making to build a world-class foundry business,” Intel said in the statement.

CEO Pat Gelsinger said in a message to employees late Monday that Intel will create an AI fabric chip for Amazon's cloud services division at its foundry business, a struggling division that he said would become a subsidiary of Intel.