Intel to Battle AMD for TSMC’s 7 Nm Process Capacity, Claims Report

[Tsing]

Image: TSMC



Is TSMC on its way to becoming some kind of monopoly? It’s starting to look like it! According to a report from China Times, Intel has already convinced the Taiwanese semiconductor giant to fab its long-delayed 7 nm processors (apparently, CEO Bob Swan wasn’t joking with his recent comments regarding outsourcing). Needless to say, this could be a huge problem for AMD, which already has plenty of other competitors (e.g., Apple, NVIDIA) to worry about in terms of securing capacity.



RetiredEngineer (@chiakokhua) has taken the liberty of translating the China Times report, which you can check out in full below...

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[ThreeDee]

This could inevitably drive up costs for both camps .. with only TSMC being the winners here .. and us little people .. being the losers

 

[Grimlakin]

Manlets hope the use life of my 3900k lasts long enough for tsmc to make more fabs that everyone else gets to pay for.

 

[Denpepe]

Seeing TSMC can't fab for Huawei anymore they should have some space in their lines.

 

[Uvilla]

Meh..