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Fabless. Like AMD and Nvidia. So I would think about it more as branding and packaging than Manufacturing
by redwood 7mo ago
Fabless. 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.