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They’ve steadily expanded over the years, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was real. It’s not just calculators, TI chips show up in a lot of military hardware in
by cwal37 1y ago
They’ve steadily expanded over the years, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was real. It’s not just calculators, TI chips show up in a lot of military hardware in particular.
- bigfatkitten 1y agoThere are a lot of markets where TI is king, such as in battery management ICs.
- UncleOxidant 1y agowhich generally cost pennies.
- baq 1y agoIf you want to build a fleet of infantry drones and you want to source components from the US there’s a lot of these and many others to buy. Not sure if there’s $60B of them there but they’ll figure out how to waste this much I’m sure.
- hiddenfinance 1y agoWell if you look at how Feds has being pumping money into Musk's bank account and what brought down the SVB, then $60B may not be that much. At this point as the country that can prints/(adjust db ledger) $60B is nothing.
- wongarsu 1y agoWhich is why they are not planning to make cutting edge semiconductors in the new plant but "foundational semiconductors" aka old nodes that now cost pennies
- chneu 1y agoThese have super low profit margins.
- jonfw 1y agoUS military may be willing to pay more for chips made in the US
- bigfatkitten 1y agoThey apparently make enough money for TI to have continued investing, over many years, in R&D and manufacturing of those devices.
- chneu 1y agoNot really? The r&d isn't expensive because these are legacy/old type chips. There isn't much r&d happening. They're made using old processes. Any r&d is likely using different materials. Military stuff often uses different materials for specific applications. The profits come from raising yields, which is much easier on older nodes.
- jdsully 1y agoThey make really good VCO+PLL chips. Ultra low phase noise.
- xvilka 1y agoDSPs as well
- cchance 1y agoIt's 1/3rd the valuation of the company... its not real lol
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- wsc981 1y agoI just want them to make a newer version of the TI-99/4A.
- lightedman 1y agoWouldn't it be funny to see that CPU produced on a modern node? Given the low transistor count, you could probably achieve speeds in the multi-10s of GHz, it would be so small. A multi-core 99/4A would be hilarious to witness.
- kragen 1y agoWith MESI cache coherence, maybe you could migrate the whole workspace for your subroutine into a line of your core's L1D cache, and make it perform like hardware registers while retaining the pleasantly parsimonious TMS 990 architectural semantics?