The talks come after the Trump administration requested TSMC to assist in turning around the troubled technology company.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has pitched Nvidia and rival chip designers Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom the idea of taking stakes in a joint venture to operate Intel’s chip-fabrication operations,

Intel (INTC) stock climbed higher Wednesday on a report that rival Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) is in talks with a group of chipmakers, including Nvidia (NVDA) and AMD (AMD), that would run Intel’s chip manufacturing business.