Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona

Re:Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona by selimthegrim on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:12AM (#26634805)

I doubt all the defense critical military electronics are fabbed over there on 10 nm

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Re:Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona by monocasa on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:25PM (#26639164)

They're increasingly into ML inference at the edge, which benefits from (and sometime requires) smaller nodes.

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Re:Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona by gowld on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @04:54PM (#26640339)

You and I like smaller nodes because they are more cost effective.

The military doesn't really worry much about price.

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Re:Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona by monocasa on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @05:28PM (#26640781)

Sort of. At the gate counts we're talking, it doesn't take long until you can't even fit the chip on a whole wafer of an older node. IIRC, an Nvidia GA100 doesn't fit on a 300mm 65nm wafer (to say nothing of being able to clock it at a viable speed even if you were to cut it down). Going off chip destroys perf for a lot of designs too.

It's not just a price component, but a performance and viability of new designs one, at a time where the DoD internally is pushing ML hard as a major pillar of investment in weapons technology.

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