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Well, the fabless part is at least easy to understand. Building a new high end fab costs billions and requires deep expertise that takes years, if not decades,
by jabl 3y ago
Well, the fabless part is at least easy to understand. Building a new high end fab costs billions and requires deep expertise that takes years, if not decades, to build.
Practically every chip company these days is fabless. Intel is the exception, not the rule.
That being said, designing a new high end cpu is very expensive and complex. That a hitherto unknown company embarks on such a project is, indeed, very suspicious.
- formerly_proven 3y ago> Practically every chip company these days is fabless. Intel is the exception, not the rule. A lot of analog and mixed-signal companies aren't: TI, NXP, ADI (with LT, ON Semi, Maxim, ...), Avago/Broadcom, AMS, Bosch, Infineon, Elmos etc.; also "the Japanese" (Sony, Fujitsu, Oki, Canon, Rohm and probably more)