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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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