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The Amlogic S905X3/4 are "jelly bean" chips under this definition - you can buy full computers with those including a motherboard of sorts, RAM and standard USB
by DCKing 6y ago
The Amlogic S905X3/4 are "jelly bean" chips under this definition - you can buy full computers with those including a motherboard of sorts, RAM and standard USB/HDMI/Ethernet/eMMC/Wifi for under $30 bulk in China. They're branded as "TV boxes". The S905X3 is also the SoC of the $55 Odroid C4 SBC.
Yet those chips are apparently made on either TSMC's or GloFo's 12nm nodes (which one I can't find). Whilst Intel's 14nm is still superior to either TSMC/GloFo 12nm by all accounts, they're definitely the same ballpark. Competition for Intel even looks rough for cheaper high volume chips. You'd need to consider that Intel still needs some time to adapt to being a third party foundry too.
- ChuckMcM 6y agoGood analysis, I didn't say it would be easy :-).
- shasheene 6y agoWhy do you think Intel will succeed in selling leading edge fab services to fabless companies when GlobalFoundries (the chip making business of AMD) was unable to compete? To me, it seems like the same story is playing out again.
- ChuckMcM 6y agoOne could easily flip that question around right? "Why would Intel try to sell fab services like Global Foundry which didn't work out well?" But more importantly, Intel actually has way more foundry expertise than Global did/does. In the case of AMD selling off Global it was more like cutting loose an under performing part of the company rather than empowering the a significant asset of the company.