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Why does it matter if Intel exists if they can't compete? AMD exists. The only point of hoping they remain is to create an environment of competition as that dr
by tensor 1y ago
Why does it matter if Intel exists if they can't compete? AMD exists. The only point of hoping they remain is to create an environment of competition as that drives development and progress.
Though fair and free markets is not at all what the current regime in the US believes in, instead it will be consolidation, leading waste, and little innovation and progress.
- JustExAWS 1y agoAMD doesn’t have a foundery. They are irrelevant.
- tensor 1y agoWell, I guess enjoy using your 3rd world Intel GPUs. A shitty foundery is irrelevant.
- JustExAWS 1y agoIntel isn’t that far behind. But it is dumb to depend on fabs in a country that is just one Chinese missile away from getting destroyed.
- iszomer 1y agoAnd why would they when TSMC is in both China and the US in some fashion?
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoAnd Taiwan is forbidding TSMC from building their cutting edge fabs in the US… https://www.asiafinancial.com/taiwan-says-tsmc-not-allowed-to-make-2nm-chips-abroad-for-now https://www.asiafinancial.com/taiwan-says-tsmc-not-allowed-t... That may have changed since then. But do you really want to depend on a foreign government for chip manufacturing?
- iszomer 1y agoAs Taiwan should, it's their prerogative. People often think when global policy changes abruptly everything stops; in reality, the contrary is true: supply chains and demands shift. For what it's worth, its TSMC's expertise in semiconductor manufacturing that has been loaned to the US, not bought, settled, and forgotten.
- iamtedd 1y agoThat's most of the world, including the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Missile_ranges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoSo you don’t see the difference in the threat level of China bombing and invading Taiwan - which they already claim they own - and China attacking the US directly?
- iamtedd 1y agoI don't, because I'm not in the US. But my comment was in reply to the actual text of the grandparent, not some imagined subtext between the lines.
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoSo its just an imagined subtext that China that has been rabble rousing about taking over Taiwan is more likely to attack a tiny island nation right next to than attack the US?