Submitted 4 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/101314-intel-ceo-claims-18a-node-least-match-tsmc.html
Intel CEO claims 18A node will at least match TSMC’s N2 performance and beat it to market::undefined
Maybe it will.
The trouble is, can I trust their word on that? Their product lines have been slipping by 6+ months for the past 3+ years. And let’s not even talk about how delayed 14nm and 10nm were…
As long as they get funding from Joe I think it’ll be fine
Selling my Intel stock was a good decision.
Less yapping… put up or shut up. TSMC could use some serious competition.
Something tells me their claims to be where TSMC is has everything to do with Xi telling Biden that China plans to take Taiwan soon.
TSMC is the lynchpin for the AI race.
Something tells me too military brass put these words into the Intel CEOs mouth. Something tells me this dude’s balls are in a vice grip, and that theyve also been given a nearly bottomless pit of money.
Competition is good!
Less yapping… put up or shut up. TSMC could use some serious competition.
Doubt.
PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m rooting for Intel in these efforts. Hopefully someone can pressure TSMC 's prices down and maybe even offer alternative fab sources for chips. Especially with the geopolitical situations with China.
I probably sound like a crazy person, but sometimes I worry about too much global reliance on TSMC and their plants usually being in Asia. Diversity should keep the market more affordable and at lower overall risk.
aluminium@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You do realize that this is exactly what China wants. The less the U.S. needs Taiwan (because they can make their own high end chips) the less likley it is that the U.S. will help defend Taiwan.
AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We can’t limit our supply chain for strategic resources to preserve an incentive to defend an ally. That’s nutty.
Chips are the kind of thing where they’re just aren’t enough of them being made. If we come up with a new way to produce more of them cheaply, that won’t suddenly flood the market with cheap chips It will just marginally bring down the price of chips they compete with.
There’s also a zero sum thing going on here, It’s not just that we need chips We need to make sure the China doesn’t get them and that strategic goal remains regardless of whether or not we start producing them elsewhere too.