Intel Hires Samsung Executive Han in Push for Foundry Customers

Intel Corp., trying to break into the outsourced chip manufacturing business, has hired Samsung Electronics Co. executive Shawn Han to help with a push to win customers.

Han, an executive vice president at the South Korean company, will join Intel next month and report to Naga Chandrasekaran, the head of the chipmaker’s foundry division. Han will become general manager of foundry services, according to a statement Thursday.