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Building a custom-designed ASIC is much easier than producing state of the art memory chips. There's a reason why Micron and Nvidia are the crown jewels of Ame
by petcat 2mo ago
Building a custom-designed ASIC is much easier than producing state of the art memory chips.
There's a reason why Micron and Nvidia are the crown jewels of American technology right now and for the foreseeable future.
- brcmthrowaway 2mo agoNVIDIA produces memory?
- fc417fc802 2mo agoFabless AFAIK. And that's the actual problem - drawing up CAD diagrams doesn't help if the factories are fully booked out.
- Cyph0n 2mo agoA state of the art GPU is much harder to design & produce at scale and than an internal ASIC.
- JV00 2mo agoNvidia does not make RAM
- varispeed 2mo agoThat doesn't excuse them from wrecking the market for ordinary person.
- chris_money202 2mo agoNvidia buys the memory it uses on its GPUs, same as all other ASICs. To give some context, Intel started making DRAM, I think they were actually the company that came up with modern memory techniques. They exited the market and pursued a more lucrative moat with CPUs.