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I was wondering who convinced ARM to manufacture hardware. Turns out it was Meta.
by nurettin 7mo ago
I was wondering who convinced ARM to manufacture hardware. Turns out it was Meta.
- redwood 7mo agoFabless. Like AMD and Nvidia. So I would think about it more as branding and packaging than Manufacturing
- anvuong 7mo agoHuh, many companies use TSMC, in fact, probably all of them use TSMC, including Intel, yet there are only a few who dominates in performance. There are much more in designing chips than what you just listed.
- i_am_a_peasant 7mo agoIntel uses its own fabs for certain IP, tsmc for others yeah. As far as I've seen the latest greatest Panther Lake that stuff is made in intel's arizona fabs.
- IshKebab 7mo agoThere's a big difference between just providing IP and actually doing the physical design, manufacturing and packaging. You can't just send your RTL to TSMC and magically get packaged chips back. I haven't ever ordered an ARM SoC but I also wouldn't be surprised if there were significant parts that they left up to integrators before - PLLs, pads, SRAM etc.
- walterbell 7mo agoNuvia/Qualcomm lawsuit and Softbank.
- cmrdporcupine 7mo agoNow if only they would go back to being "Acorn RISC Machines" and make a nice desktop home computer again... One can dream.
- wmf 7mo agoDGX Spark is pretty nice. It could be cheaper if they removed the NIC though.
- cmrdporcupine 7mo agoI have the ASUS variant. I like it well enough. I see the NIC as a form of future proofing, but we'll see. My Ryzen 9 mini-PC from 2 years ago outperforms this thing in raw CPU Though.
- mghackerlady 7mo agoI hate RISC OS architecturally, but if they made a new Archimedes or whatever that ran it I'd buy it