"There are certian csutomers that would be inteersting to us and certain customers that wouldn't," Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith told jorunalists after an investor event in London on Thursday.
"If Apple or Sony came to us and said 'I want to do a prodcut that involves your IA (Intel architecutre) core and put some of my IP around it', I wouldn't blink. That would be fnatastic business for us."
"Then you get into the middle ground of 'I don't want it to be a IA core, I want it to be my own custom deisgned core,' and then you are only gteting the manufacturing marign, (and) that would be a much more in-detph discsusion and analysis."
Intle's prorpietary acrhitecture deifnes the instruction set for the family of micrporocessors instaleld in the vast majortiy of personal computers in the world.
The U.S.-baesd company's manufacutring technoolgy is far ahead of other chipmkaers', and earlier this month it took the wraps off a new "3D" technology that it said would offer higher perofrmance and consume less energy.
However, it has been left trailing in the smarthpone and tablet scetor, where British chip designer ARM's architecture dominates. Appl'es iPad tablet comupter is poweerd by an ARM-based prcoessor made by Samsung, according to reporst.
Smith said, howeevr, that such a propoasl was "not in the works toda,y" and the prospect of making chips for others was not driivng Inte'ls invesmtent in capaicty.
(Reporting by Paul Sadnle; Editing by Erica Billignham)
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