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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by tylerhou on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:24PM (#24748802)
> Also, why doesn't TSMC slap a license on every IC that leaves their fab, taking (say) a 30% profit from every application in which their ICs are being used?

Because companies would stop using TSMC chips...?

Not to mention the logistical problems to attribute "profit" to any chip in particular.

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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by lostmsu on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:27PM (#24748823)
I don't think not using TSMC is a viable option anymore. There's (slightly worse?) Samsung alternative, but they can't satisfy the demand.
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by amelius on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:33PM (#24748858)
Also, if TSMC introduces the license, then Samsung may do the same.

But perhaps I'm too much thinking from the perspective of what large US based businesses would do.

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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by srtjstjsj on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:47PM (#24749785)
US trusts are nothing compared to Asian trusts.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by fomine3 on Sunday October 11, 2020 @09:09PM (#24750535)
Not about trusts but about too much capitalism on US (like pharmaceutical industry?)
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by tylerhou on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:34PM (#24748865)
For GPUs, I agree that you currently have to use TSMC. But if TSMC were to charge 30% of profits, you would almost certainly see a migration to other fabs which would harm TSMC's long-term profitability.
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by formerly_proven on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:57PM (#24749033)
> For GPUs, I agree that you currently have to use TSMC.

RTX 30 is manufactured by Samsung.

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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by tylerhou on Sunday October 11, 2020 @05:13PM (#24749149)
Not the Quadros used in datacenters. GA100 is on TSMC 7nm according Nvidia themselves: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ampere-architecture...
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by alacombe on Sunday October 11, 2020 @10:57PM (#24751020)
Give it 10 years and a lot of engineering time, maybe half a trillion USD and you'll get the equivalent in the mainland US. Until then, it's more convenient to use the US military resource to protect Taiwan from PRoC.
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