Intel and Samsung Expand into Each Other’s Territories

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Ian King and Jungah Lee, Intel and Samsung Are on a Collision Course. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Feb 29, 2016.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... -a-collision-course

Note"
(a) summary underneath the title in print: The leading chipmakers push into each other’s businesses
(b) "Late last year, Intel said it would spend as much as $5.5 billion to jump back into production of modern memory chips at a plant in the Chinese city of Dalian."
(i) Intel to Convert Processor Chip Factory in China to Make Memory Chips. Wall Street Journal, Oct 20, 2015
http://www.wsj.com/articles/inte ... ry-chips-1445368532
("As part of the move disclosed on Tuesday, however, Intel said the factory would become a 'leading-edge' maker of nonvolatile memory chips, a term that refers to chips that retain data after power is turned off.  Nonvolatile memory includes the flash memory chips")
(ii) Rob Crooke, Intel Expanding Investment in Non-Volatile Memory. Intel, undated
http://www.intel.com/newsroom/ar ... _expansion_blog.pdf
("The Intel Dalian facility has been in operation since 2010, producing 65-nanometer products for Intel")

My comment:
(A) This is the press release from Intel, undated though most likely on Oct 20, 2015.  
(B) For years I have failed to find anything about What Intel's Dalian foundry was up to. The quotation is the most concrete information I find. There is no need to read the rest.
(C) I did read the WSJ report at the time, but did not know its significance. Intel terminated production of memory chips in 1985, when Japanese competitors thrashed Intel in this regard.