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This is what I don't get. I thought military and aerospace used decades old cpu designs on decades old fab technology for the radiation hardness? Not saying th
by patentatt 4y ago
This is what I don't get. I thought military and aerospace used decades old cpu designs on decades old fab technology for the radiation hardness? Not saying they couldn't benefit from an upgrade, but it's not like Lockheed is putting Nvidia GPUs in fighter jets, right? It doesn't seem like a deal breaker to use a 14nm node compared to a '5nm' node (or whatever is the latest TSMC process). Seems like a weird line to draw in the sand to me. Frankly, seems like the only applications which are make or break on EUV lithography are all gaming related. Am I that off base here? Certainly prices would rise, and critical supply chains would have to be remade, and there would be no more iPhones, but seems like we'd get by just fine for a few years before catching back up and then likely surpassing Taiwan. And it's not like the real brains behind TSMC would willingly help a Chinese controlled takeover, and add on a new layer of corruption and bureaucracy, and in a few years TSMC is irrelevant anyways. And don't forget, TSMC is reliant on ASML, who certainly wouldn't be shipping any more EUV lithography equipment to a Chinese controlled Taiwan.
- nscalf 4y agoI think that's true for some key components of the military, but for example, anything involving AI systems necessitate cutting edge chips. You can probably look to the effect chip shortages had on car manufacturers to see how much of this likely works. Cars manufacturing wasn't entirely halted in most cases, instead they had downgraded functionality. Less automatic windows, more window cranks. The totality of every military system isn't based off high end chips, but some of it certainly is.
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