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The buy a tool from ASML. TSMC built up the knowledge to use that tool, to achieve these processes, themselves. Knowledge transfer is key.
by lttlrck 5y ago
The buy a tool from ASML. TSMC built up the knowledge to use that tool, to achieve these processes, themselves.
Knowledge transfer is key.
- pas 5y agoI'd say the working relationship is the important thing. (yaay, synergy!) Naturally TSMC knows their tools and processes, works with product companies (nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm) to actually implement their design on the target process node. And at the same time works with the various tool vendors to refine the process, the tools themselves. But as lately we saw it's increasingly impossible to do it "alone", both Intel and Samsung works with many-many vendors. (Intel - among others - funded the push for EUV by buying ASML equity in 2012.)