News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investment surge. Parent comment

Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by IshKebab on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:02AM (#26658504)
Completely pie-in-the-sky. Chips aren't fungible.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by rasz on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:51AM (#26660507)
Yet here we are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNje63vx73s Chinese "Motherboard" made using salvaged VRMs and transistors, salvaged capacitors, salvaged Intel Chipset!, and made to work with retired Intel Xeons and older DDR3 ECC memory.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by imtringued on Thursday April 01, 2021 @03:54PM (#26665248)
Yeah, we would have to assume a post-fab apocalypse where we dig out electronics from a landfill for it to be economically viable.
[ Parent | on HN ]