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> E.g. what is preventing a RISC-V company from leap-frogging the competition? They would need to have already taped out on N7 and be ready to start mass produ
by wtallis 4y ago
> E.g. what is preventing a RISC-V company from leap-frogging the competition?
They would need to have already taped out on N7 and be ready to start mass production now. That doesn't happen overnight. Even if you have taped out a ready-to-fab design, you usually want to start small and run a few rounds of QA on small batches of chips before you start ordering enough wafers to make a dent in TSMC's schedule.