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It's called an ASIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrate...
by hart_russell 10y ago
It's called an ASIC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrate...
- turbohedgehog 10y agoYeah, I know what ASICs are, I just hadn't heard of large companies getting their own IP inserted into Intel's chips for their own use.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoLook up AMD Semi-Custom Design. Should get some news articles on where they got this started in x86. Became big business that Intel got into, too.
- aab0 10y agoNormally when you think of an ASIC, you think of a single chip custom-designed for a single customer/buyer. You don't think of a single chip with multiple totally different functions and designs consolidated onto it, which get enabled only if they're shipped to the particular customer who requested that particular function. This is like the CPU/GPU core stuff but on steroids - not just 1 or 2 cores disabled to do yield management and price discrimination, but entire processors.