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A wild guess: the big chip makers have been compromised (e.g. adversaries have figured how to use the Intel's ME module to exfiltrate data or even send commands
by frongpik 6y ago
A wild guess: the big chip makers have been compromised (e.g. adversaries have figured how to use the Intel's ME module to exfiltrate data or even send commands), and the software corps have no choice but to manufacture their own.
- cogman10 6y agoAlternative theory, demand is high and supply low which pushes back channel prices higher. This is a bid by MS and Apple to cut prices.
- the-pigeon 6y agoAlternative alternative theory, the chipmakers are stuck. Chipmakers have been crawling forward with progress for years. Meanwhile in house chips like Amazon's and Apple's have been coming out that seem to be miles ahead. The general theory for this seems to be the chipmakers just don't get how to design their chips to work well with the real software being ran on them. So the mega-corps are just taking matters in to their own hands.
- paxys 6y agoConsidering none of them are actually manufacturing their own chips, I can't see how that would help?