Posts posted by immamac
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17 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:
On a related note though Intel outsourced some of it's own new chip production to TSMC because of it's inability to overcome manufacturing issues at scale on the chips. That would indicate they are behind in foundry IP.
Not x86 IIRC. Intel is getting into the ARM low power game and the GPU game. I believe that is what went to TSMC.
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I suspect a lot of you also don't know that GlobalFoundries is the husk of fab that AMD sloughed off itself to become the behemoth that they are. As in, it used to be US owned and operated.
Intel is a self foundry only.
AMD was self foundry only and couldn't keep pace, then split into 2 companies - AMD and GlobalFoundries
AMD then went off and started doing crazy design work and got to keep their valuation on what was deemed valuable IP (chip design) and they caught up to intel just very recently on performance even though they had technically superior nodal capabilities.
TSMC has always been foundry for hire and AMD among others has always had "first in line, help you ramp new node" fab time, but everyone can use TSMC for fab it's a foundry for hire. TSMC never really blew up until NVIDIA and Apple threw tons of money and orders at it because of a new, much cheaper, much more open RISC architecture CPU originally designed by ARM. ARM is basically as close to an open source RISC design as exists and it's licensing is dirt cheap compared to CISC X86_64 (AMD/Intel weirdness IP). Know who else uses ARM? That's right - Samsung (fab in Taylor texas anyone?), Qualcomm, MediaTek, etc.
TSMC got sued by GlobalFoundries for basically stealing fab capability IP, and now they are joint licensed for the next 10 or so years to just be able to do what each other do because they likely had too much contamination from cross pollinating employees.
Intel's new fabs are intended to also be foundry for hire, prioritizing Intel's product first, but allowing for additional capacity to be leveraged by other chip designers and especially low power, low barrier to entry ARM (closed source RISC) based cores and RISC-V (open source) based cores.
4 minutes ago, crash_davis said:I think we are saying the same thing. The chip designs are ours. It's the best in class manufacturing facilities that we are lacking. My understanding is that those facilities have IP and processes which we cannot match. And that it would take years for us to have facilities which could match what Taiwan facilities are capable of producing.
Is this what you are saying above?
see my post
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16 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:
I'm not sure about that since Apple specifically switched off Intel because of their manufacuring issues and problems in recent years. Intel's had a string of issues from design to manufacturing in recent years.
Also false. They switched because they wanted to have a lower cost, completely SoC architecture with integrated CPU and GPU with a reduced cost licensing model and a bit more control over the chip design (owning the IP). ARM and MALI are used for apple and they use TSMC for foundry only.
People keep mistaking foundry for IP/design, foundry is simply the fab manufacturing facilities and output. Think of it as a really fancy 3D printer, but not all 3D printers can do the same things, but if you give it the schematics/blueprint/inputs the printer prints.
We have a shortage of printers, not a shortage of ink, or blueprints, which are the things that "take the longest" to develop.
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2 hours ago, crash_davis said:China is well ahead of us in chip manufacturing. They are a only few years behind Taiwan in capability. We are at least a decade. They can live through the chip issue much better than we can.
So we start shit now. We'll be a severe disadvantage re chip manufacturing. We'll need continued chip production for a long protracted war, especially since we'll be supporting two wars, Ukraine and Taiwan.
It's not our fucks that matter. It's China's.
This is just false. We own all the IP and understand the processes to fab chips. The only thing holding the US back from building fabs quickly and catching up is that it isn't profitable and the stock market is rewarding race to the bottom foundry (which Taiwan obviously was the windfall recipient of).
We can have fabs online a lot faster than "a decade" if privately held companies weren't the only ones footing the bill for the fabs and the companies flooding TSMC with the IP to do the fab stopped doing anything for future nodes. This isn't a technology or capability problem this is a resource and capital allocation problem.
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1 minute ago, closetojumping said:
Everyone is writing the Bama game off as a major blowout. The game is at home. Texas has elite offensive talent and an elite offensive playcaller. They're not spending the offseason working up an approach to Louisiana Monroe. Bama basically sucked on the road last year.
This Bama game is going to be a prime opportunity for "Why Texas Stomps a Mudhole In Alabama's Ass" treatise, and you all are going to fucking deserve it.
But what if they win and then lose 6 in a row again?
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2 hours ago, TonyTexas said:
I don’t really understand the NFL fucked up sentiment. Everyone wanted Goodell’s overriding authority in matters like this taken away. An independent arbitrator was the solution to address that. This was the decision. Having said that, they could still fuck up the appeal process.
The NFL is toast with regards to player punishment after this. They either ignore arbitration which will make the next CBA super fun or they abide by it which neuters them entirely on stuff that isn't proved in a court of law basically.
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1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
The problem with many diseases is that someone can be contagious before there are obvious signs they have the disease.
It’s very rare that people knowingly or intentionally pass on a dangerous disease to others. So much so, that this situations make the news when alleged or proven to be true.
Incorrect.
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So butt fucking definitely spreads it, but there's plenty of other shit if you see someone with fucked up skin or blisters don't use the same sheets as them or run into them at a close contact position for more than just a brush by. Like grinding with a chick or something that had it on her wrist.
Got it. So people don't know they have it? Or are people that have it intentionally just not giving a shit?
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6 minutes ago, Humble Beast said:
You’re choosing to be the well Ackschually guy. Percentage of cases that are in the gay/bisexual male population are in the very upper 90s according to the WHO. It’s ok to admit that and tailor public health messaging in the best way to combat spread. Arguing that it’s not is kind of weird and just fear mongering outside of that population.
I have zero worries about monkeypox and neither should most people.
What are the actual US case numbers? I can't really find them.
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Just now, BurntOrange&White said:It’s not. Shut the fuck up. You need elite talent to win championships. It’s proven. Settling for guys under that tier gets you to the ND’s of the world and Oklahoma’s. Making the playoffs but getting ass fucked by the teams who are landing the elite talent.
Lmao why are you such a whiney bitch.
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