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They’re fabless.
by BooneJS 7y ago
They’re fabless.
- logicallee 7y agoso what's the story? how do they compete?
- AdrianB1 7y agoThey have the expertise, not the fabs. They know how to build and interconnect CPU's and memory to a huge scale that others are struggling with.
- logicallee 7y agoso they design their own CPU's, just for supercomputers?
- eslaught 7y agoNo, they don't design CPUs. They design ASICs that run inside their network. This is the secret sauce that keeps them competitive in HPC environments where latency/bandwidth matter a lot more. They used to do the whole shebang, back in the day. But it's been a long, long time since that was the case.
- BooneJS 7y agoUnless you’re TSMC, Samsung, Global Foundries, or Chartered, you’re fabless. Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, AMD, and many others are doing ok as fabless companies.
- logicallee 7y agowow, I had no idea AMD was fabless. I'd think it's one of the main things they do. thanks for the info.
- potatosareok 7y agoGlobal foundries was amd spinning out its fab business iirc.
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- GlennS 7y agoIt used to be one of the main things they did, but they spun it out into a separate company about 10 years ago. They were failing to keep up with Intel in fabrication process because of the massive capital and R&D expenditure required. They decided they would be better off having a choice of fab partners instead.
- altmind 7y agoand intel, right?
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- appleflaxen 7y agowait... where does intel manufacture?
- trcarney 7y agointel isn't fabless. They have a fab in the Phoenix area
- tus87 7y agoWith the super-computers sold at Best Buy? Good question....