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somanyphotons ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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silisili ◴[] No.44506840[source]
In terms of years, not that old.

In terms of process, it's ancient.

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1. kragen ◴[] No.44506987[source]
I suspect the vast majority of chips made today are made at the 12nm process node or coarser, because I know of some surprising examples. Smaller process nodes are critical to the highest-performance digital chips, but a lot of chips aren't those.