Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
by monocasa on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:48PM
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They could, but the answer to "what should I spend $20b on" for both pretty clearly isn't "a fab where at the end of the day you might get a fraction of a percent better costs on bare dies from the vertical integration versus just buying from TSMC or whoever"
Fabs are both a commodity, and take a high capital investment. Unless you have a geopolitical reason to create one and you get .gov kickbacks to make it happen, then there's way better uses of your money.
Apple have $245bn on hand, so they could have a dozen $20bn fabs if they felt the need. Bezos has $180bn and no idea what to do with it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/29/apple-now-has-tk-cash-on-han...