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If Huawei is still blocked after stockpiles runs out, they have to start buying standard components from MediaTek or Samsung. There is no good non-American subs
by Nokinside 6y ago
If Huawei is still blocked after stockpiles runs out, they have to start buying standard components from MediaTek or Samsung. There is no good non-American substitute for Xilinx.
MediaTek’s flagship Dimensity 1000 5G Chipset is fine, so is Exynos 990. They are just slightly behind Snapdragon 855+ and A13
Edit: in case it's not clear, FPGA's are used in wireless base-stations.
- curiousgal 6y agoAs if A13 was even purchasable by anyone.
- zxcmx 6y agoInteresting to speculate on the engineering workarounds if all FPGAs disappeared tomorrow. I'm not sure there's a big long-term impact. Maybe more shift to more to DSP, make low volume ASICs on older nodes cheaper and cycle faster, put up with more card swaps since you can't update certain things in firmware so easily. You can still do all the things but maybe the design takes longer or you sacrifice some performance (designer gets to choose the tradeoff). My guess is the main "real" impact is cycle times, design retooling and having to pause and rework existing designs suffering from supply chain disruption. Potentially all problems you can fix scalably by throwing enough bodies at them since the money is clearly there. Would be interested in perspectives from anyone working in a related area.