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To 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 desi
by newsclues 4y ago
To 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