Intel could begin delivering in-demand semiconductors for the automobile corporations within the next six to nine months, CEO Pat Gelsinger announced in an interview, explaining that the chipmaking is already being happening presented with firms that plan chips for vehicles.

“We’re expecting that few of these elements can be mitigated, not expecting a three - or four-year company builds, but perhaps six months of new goods being approved on some of our current methods,” Gelsinger explained. “We’ve established those meetings previously with some of the essential components suppliers.”

Yet if Intel is incapable to match that six to nine-month objective, the news highlights the point that Intel is settling on its new business as a producer of parts for different businesses.

Gelsinger revealed that the new company - called Intel Foundry Services - as a “standalone foundry business unit” last month at his “Engineering the Future” reports, with hopes that the organization would set its fabs to accomplish manufacturing x86, Arm, and RISC-V core chips for obvious customers. As part of that statement, Intel is also projected to invest $20 billion into developing its fabs in Arizona to promote it adequately meet interest from outside allies.

The automotive industry has remained one of the regions that have remained hit hardest by the continuing global semiconductor shortage, with automobile companies like Ford and GM asked to shut down a generation or make modifications to their vehicles due to a shortage of components. If Intel can start manufacturing automotive chips within the year, it could accommodate a much-needed new avenue of equipment to ease those deficiencies.

The global deficiency has approached the limit that the Biden government is looking to happen: the president has asked for a survey of the semiconductor equipment chain in an administrative order and received the officials of companies including Intel, Ford, GM, Google, TSMC, and Dell at the White House for today’s “CEO Summit on Semiconductor as well as Supply Chain Resilience.”

“We’ve continued slipping backward on analysis and construction and production, and, to put it bluntly, we must step up our game,” Biden spoke at the conference.