Intel in talks to produce chips for automakers within six to nine months
So, Intel has been having trouble getting their cutting-edge (very small geometry) manufacturing to work.  Automotive chips, however, I believe typically do not require the very newest, smallest geometry manufacturing (although they have other peculiarities and demanding requirements).I was, many years ago, employed as a manufacturing engineer in semiconductor fabs that, once no longer cutting edge enough to do the latest CPU's or memory chips, would transition to doing higher-voltage stuff.  It's a reasonable thing to do.  It does not necessarily speak well of Intel's current situation, though, with respect to CPU and memory chips, that they consider this a good move.  But, given their current situation, it probably is making the best of a bad situation.