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I don't think Texas Instruments deserves to be counted out. Their revenue last year was greater than Nvidia. Given that the margins on microcontrollers and DSPs
by PeCaN 7y ago
I don't think Texas Instruments deserves to be counted out. Their revenue last year was greater than Nvidia. Given that the margins on microcontrollers and DSPs are not nearly as large as on GPUs, they're shipping a lot of chips.
Granted I have no idea what their process node is, which they don't advertise anywhere presumably because people buying microcontrollers and DSPs do not really care about an arbitrary silicon feature size number. It's probably not cutting edge, but they're a big foundry regardless.
GlobalFoundaries is definitely not dead either. They even do 14nm which is hardly very outdated (and is probably the last practical node anyway).
- magicalhippo 7y agoON Semiconductor has 700nm down to 180nm for hire in the US. https://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/content.do?id=18397 https://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/content.do?id=18397 https://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/content.do?id=16678 https://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/content.do?id=16678 ST has been boasting about their new STM32G series as being their first 90nm product, though I doubt it'll start a nm race in the microcontroller world... https://blog.st.com/stm32g0-mainstream-90-nm-mcu/ https://blog.st.com/stm32g0-mainstream-90-nm-mcu/
- baybal2 7y agoThere are plenty of 40nm MCUs already
- magicalhippo 7y agoI see Renesas has some[1], got any pointers to some others? Would be interesting to compare specs. [1]: https://www.renesas.com/jp/en/about/press-center/news/2018/news20180327.html https://www.renesas.com/jp/en/about/press-center/news/2018/n...
- baybal2 7y agoESP32, gigadevices, some nuvotons Correction, gigadevices are still at 55
- magicalhippo 7y agoWell there ya go. Been using the ESP32 for a while, yet blissfully ignorant of it being a 40nm device. Though I guess that explains how they can get all that SRAM in at that price point?