Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger has landed Amazon.com Inc.’s AWS as a customer for the company’s manufacturing business, potentially bringing work to new plants under construction in the US and boosting his efforts to turn around the embattled chipmaker.

Shares of Intel are surging before the opening bell after the chipmaker said its foundry business would make some custom artificial intelligence chips for Amazon Web Services as it attempts to reinvigorate its business.

Retail sales ticked up 0.1 percent from July to August, after jumping the most in a year and a half the previous month, the Commerce Department said Sept. 17. Online retailers, sporting goods stores,

The most significant transformation of Intel in over four decades” includes $10 billion in cost cutting and foundry business spinoff.