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Re:TSMC: 3nm EUV Development Progress Going Well by PeCaN on Saturday September 21, 2019 @05:49AM (#21034397)
I don't think Texas Instruments deserves to be counted out. Their revenue last year was greater than Nvidia. Given that the margins on microcontrollers and DSPs are not nearly as large as on GPUs, they're shipping a lot of chips.

Granted I have no idea what their process node is, which they don't advertise anywhere presumably because people buying microcontrollers and DSPs do not really care about an arbitrary silicon feature size number. It's probably not cutting edge, but they're a big foundry regardless.

GlobalFoundaries is definitely not dead either. They even do 14nm which is hardly very outdated (and is probably the last practical node anyway).

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Re:TSMC: 3nm EUV Development Progress Going Well by magicalhippo on Saturday September 21, 2019 @06:38AM (#21034539)
ON Semiconductor has 700nm down to 180nm for hire in the US.

https://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/content.do?id=18397

https://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/content.do?id=16678

ST has been boasting about their new STM32G series as being their first 90nm product, though I doubt it'll start a nm race in the microcontroller world...

https://blog.st.com/stm32g0-mainstream-90-nm-mcu/

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Re:TSMC: 3nm EUV Development Progress Going Well by baybal2 on Saturday September 21, 2019 @08:10AM (#21034835)
There are plenty of 40nm MCUs already
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Re:TSMC: 3nm EUV Development Progress Going Well by magicalhippo on Saturday September 21, 2019 @09:01AM (#21035096)
I see Renesas has some[1], got any pointers to some others? Would be interesting to compare specs.

[1]: https://www.renesas.com/jp/en/about/press-center/news/2018/n...

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Re:TSMC: 3nm EUV Development Progress Going Well by baybal2 on Saturday September 21, 2019 @09:23AM (#21035222)
ESP32, gigadevices, some nuvotons

Correction, gigadevices are still at 55

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Re:TSMC: 3nm EUV Development Progress Going Well by magicalhippo on Saturday September 21, 2019 @01:39PM (#21036732)
Well there ya go. Been using the ESP32 for a while, yet blissfully ignorant of it being a 40nm device. Though I guess that explains how they can get all that SRAM in at that price point?
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