Whatever Raja Koduri does right now makes news. The ex-AMD graphics boss made a huge splash in the GPU waters by jumping ship from team Radeon to head up Intel’s burgeoning GPU design team, and now he’s made the move over to Samsung. Okay, it’s just for a visit this time, but his appearance at a Samsung chip manufacturing plant in South Korea has sparked rumours that Intel might be considering contracting its semiconductor rival to manufacture its Intel Xe graphics cards.

That potential partnership might sound bizarre, especially given that Intel and Samsung have been fighting it out to claim the title of biggest chip manufacturer in the world. Last year Samsung was the first company to knock Intel off the top spot since 1992, but it’s widely expected that, due to a decline of the memory market, Intel will retake its throne this year.

So, why would it give over a large chunk of its new manufacturing to a rival in order to get its first discrete graphics cards out of the door in 2020? One word. Capacity.