Yeah the distinction is leading vs trailing nodes. Automotive uses older nodes for cost and nobody is building any more of that. TSMC is trying to get them to m

Yeah the distinction is leading vs trailing nodes. Automotive uses older nodes for cost and nobody is building any more of that. TSMC is trying to get them to move to 22nm nodes but so far that’s not what’s used, it’s 40nm and 65nm and 90nm and such. https://www.anandtech.com/show/17470/tsmc-to-customers-time-to-stop-using-older-nodes-move-to-28nm https://www.anandtech.com/show/17470/tsmc-to-customers-time-... Paradoxically there is actually some capacity available at the newer nodes now, because of big cancellations from major customers. But using them involves major design/validation costs and higher wafer costs etc, and the things that automotive and RF and power chips do doesn’t really scale.