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Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by SlowRobotAhead on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:11PM (#23188461)
I’m not sure which brands TSMC makes for. But I can promise you if there is an option to buy an USA made AMD, I’d pay a premium for that.
Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by megaframe on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:31AM (#23188915)
Qualcomm/Broadcomm/Nvidia/AMD use TSMC

AMD does make chips in the US via their spun off Global Foundries, and so does Intel. AMD switched some production to TSMC because they had much better defect rates at 7nm. You can buy US made AMD today if you want it just won't be the latest GPU's.

Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by wtallis on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:10AM (#23189086)
> AMD switched some production to TSMC because they had much better defect rates at 7nm.

GloFo outright canceled their 7nm and smaller processes, back in 2018. All of AMD's leading-edge processors are now using TSMC 7nm, though the server and most desktop processors also incorporate a 12nm IO die. The days of AMD using GloFo are numbered.

Really, though, at this point it's easier to list what leading-edge chips aren't using TSMC: Intel's CPUs and FPGAs. All the other latest-and-greatest CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and smartphone SoCs are made at TSMC. There's more diversity for memory manufacturing, and logic that doesn't need to be on a leading-edge process (eg. low-end smartphone SoCs, motherboard chipsets, SSD controllers).

Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by remarkEon on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:15PM (#23188477)
Same.

"Manufactured by TSMC-USA in Arizona". Super exciting to be quite honest.

Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by arcticbull on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:41PM (#23188650)
> I’m not sure which brands TSMC makes for.

Basically all of them, to some extent.

> But I can promise you if there is an option to buy an USA made AMD, I’d pay a premium for that.

AMD spun off their own foundry years ago (GlobalFoundaries) and still uses the for some things.

FWIW though TSMC already has a US fab, but all their high-end processes are going to remain in Taiwan.

Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by valuearb on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:17AM (#23193127)
I always try to buy foreign, because free trade is what makes the US so wealthy.
Re:TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Se... by rurban on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:30AM (#23188911)
Because you prefer US backdoors over Taiwanese backdoors? Sounds unreasonable to me.