Cars, manufacturing, microwaves, washer\dryer, dishwasher, cellphones/tablets, anything wireless. There are more non crypto/AI products than not.
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leisesprecher@feddit.org 10 months agoWhat exactly do you think these chips are used for?
Because it’s often enough AI, crypto and bullshit IoT.
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Phones, laptops, PC components, data centers, cars, planes, trains, satelites, medical laborarory equipments, factory controller, and many more!
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The vast, vast majority of chips produced are “old generation” chips used for relatively mundane purposes. The high-tech stuff you see in the news is a minority (though it’s pricey enough that it doesn’t look that way in company earnings reports).
Think power supplies, middle-of-the-road CPUs, ASICs for common I/O like USB and ethernet, timing devices, and wireless communication modules.
leisesprecher@feddit.org 10 months ago
And that’s mostly the “bullshit IoT” category. It’s not like the demand for phones and laptops exploded in the last years, it’s IoT, AI and other useless crap - regardless of the process node.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even a non-IoT electronic device still runs on many different chips.