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I understand that making chips is hard, but this thinking reminds me of the Palm CEO's quote "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going t
by kevinchen 11y ago
I understand that making chips is hard, but this thinking reminds me of the Palm CEO's quote "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in."
Just look at how far Apple and TSMC have come since 2009. Sure, Apple "cheated" by acquiring PA Semi (the DEC Alpha people). But China has the rest of the ingredients: vertical integration of hardware/software (I assume these will be used for defense-related HPC), strong political incentives to be independent, and massive amounts of cash.
- bigtones 11y agoApple does not fab its own chips, it just designs them from IP licenced from British firm ARM. This article is referring to constructing a fab plant to produce nand chips.