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GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS

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224 points mshockwave | 2 comments | 08 Jul 25 16:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.528s | source
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somanyphotons ◴[08 Jul 25 17:38 UTC] No.44502235[source]▶
Suddenly another company that has (old?) fabs and a cpu design team in-house

This could be interesting to see how much they try to loss-lead to get market share in the low-end

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kragen ◴[08 Jul 25 17:51 UTC] No.44502358[source]▶
GF's fabs aren't that old. They were neck-and-neck with TSMC until 02018, when they could do 12nm: https://web.archive.org/web/20190107061855/https://www.v3.co...
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kasabali ◴[08 Jul 25 18:13 UTC] No.44502554[source]▶
Imagine canning your 7nm process last minute only few years before the chip shortage.

Must be the most moronic decision ever.

and it's not like 20/20 hindsight either, because every hardware enthusiast knew at the time Intel was having troubles and was worried TSMC (and Samsung at the time) were going to be the only fabs producing leading edge lithographies.

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1. dragontamer ◴[09 Jul 25 00:29 UTC] No.44505248[source]▶
> Imagine canning your 7nm process last minute only few years before the chip shortage.

What?

The chip shortage was a shortage of cheap but inferior 28nm, 40nm, 65nm and 80nm chips that GlobalFoundries was (and still is) well positioned to profit from.

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2. kragen ◴[09 Jul 25 01:05 UTC] No.44505411[source]▶
This is a good point, but they weren't necessarily very cheap or inferior; they were just fabricated in larger process nodes, which for analog chips (as many of them were) doesn't imply inferiority.