Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment
Luminotik@lemmy.world 12 hours agoNVIDIA doesn’t manufacture chips at all (TSMC does), so this facility would presumably be for R&D, marketing, devising the next scheme to screw everyone over and increase share value, yada yada.
hector@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
Wait, so excuse my ignorance here, if they are made by others in Tawain, what does nvidia do? They just program them then?
Luminotik@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
You’re not far off. It’s kinda like NVIDIA is the architect who designs the house while TSMC are the guys who actually build it.
The reason for that split is that maintaining fabs (the facilities which actually produce the chips with EUV machines) is insanely expensive and requires much different staff, resources, and expertise than doing the chip design itself.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
NVIDIA handles hardware design and software components, TSMC handles actual silicon manufacturing, and a third party handles assembly. This is the case for nearly all hardware companies outside of Intel, Samsung, and a few domestic companies in the PRC.
87Six@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
And even those other companies only manufacture some of the components
Most components they need come in plastic rolls that machines pick up and place on boards, and other such methods
It’s just like any other business, most stuff is bought and assembled into the final produt, but not produced locally.