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Agreed. Maxim Integrated is an analog/mixed-signal company; it's completely the wrong kind of facility for digital logic production. Plus it's far too small, even for a test fab.
ARM are working with Global Foundries on 10 and 7 nm physical IP. 'Nuff said.
ARM are working with Global Foundries on 10 and 7 nm physical IP. 'Nuff said.
$18.2 million for a place on First St. in San Jose? This does not sound like it's very large or has much equipment associated with it to be any kind of serious wafer fab. Sounds like a spot for doing some specialized R&D maybe.
Do you just parrot this line in every thread? Lol.
I'm still doing designs at 180nm on a daily basis (either our own or TSMC), with a decent dose of 90nm, most of the time with a low number of available metal layers for routing. Have you seen modern EDA tools trying to route on just 2-3 layers? It ain't prettyPlenty of companies run small fabs at older nodes for their own specialty purposes, but none of them could be used for mass market manufacturing. I agree with the article's conclusion, I would guess Apple wants to research doing some in-house mixed-signal stuff.
What's there to understand? Glofo is as irrelevant as AMD is. Even their owner is trying unload them.
How the hell is AMD irrelevant?
How the hell is AMD irrelevant?
How are they relevant? They currently hold about 2% of the x86 CPU market.
From nearly three years ago;
http://arstechnica.com/business/201...e-top-of-the-mountain-to-the-deepest-valleys/
Or, just Google "AMD irrelevant" and look at all the news reports.
Did you miss a zero after 2?
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/market_share.html
Did you miss a zero after 2?
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/market_share.html
Your graph is useless, since its just passmark submits.
However we know AMDs revenue on x86 is 2% and Intel 98%.