For decades, Intel operated as an IDM and shared transistor data directly with its product teams without a formal PDK process.

“There's definitely a learning curve to how you become a foundry, and that's something that our competitors have gone through as well. PDK is a good example of that. For decades, we've been an IDM and we've gone to our product teams and we've shown them our transistor data, and we share that data back and forth, and we haven't had a formal PDK type process.”