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You don’t know much about chip manufacturing and the expertise and logistics required do you?
by scarface74 4y ago
You don’t know much about chip manufacturing and the expertise and logistics required do you?
- newsclues 4y agoTo say they are just a contract manufacturer, and not a R&D powerhouse does illustrate that. TSMC isn't a factory, it is a group of people who know how to design, build and operate the most advanced chip factories.
- gimme_treefiddy 4y ago> how to design This is different than what Intel/AMD/Nvidia/Apple does when designing their own chips, right?
- scarface74 4y agoYes it’s very different. The competencies needed to design a chip and manufacturer a chip at scale reliably takes a different set of competencies. Even designing different types of chips require different competencies. Apple couldn’t just design a graphics chip to compete with Nvidia and infamously, Intel couldn’t design a modem chip to compete with Qualcomm