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Re:Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability by masklinn on Sunday September 20, 2020 @02:08AM (#24532207)
> You are of course aware that Apple is soon selling computers with their own processors, I hope.

Which has 0 relevance. GGP was asserting that Apple Is an existential threat to AMD. Given AMD is not an Apple supplier (of CPU anyway) and Apple will not sell their chips to the outside world, that makes sense on no axis.

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Re:Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability by ant6n on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:42AM (#24532531)
AMD would like to produce and sell mobile CPUs, which are a very important market for chip makers, and which rely very much on betting on the smallest possible node, to minimize power consumption.
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Re:Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability by distances on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:26AM (#24532688)
> AMD would like to produce and sell mobile CPUs

Any sources for this? As far as I know, AMD has never designed CPU for mobiles.

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Re:Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability by HeWhoLurksLate on Sunday September 20, 2020 @05:31AM (#24532895)
As far as mobiles broadly, my laptop has a Ryzen CPU in it.

It's not out of the question for them to consider such a move, but I think that the bigger issue here for AMD is that it means they will wind up a mode behind the edge, giving their main competitor- Intel- more time to catch up.

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