TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investment surge

Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by ip26 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @10:49AM (#26661159)

Older levels of performance wouldn't cripple humanity. But putting together something that actually works out of a big parts bin is a crapshoot, and supporting a deployment of machines which are each completely unique is an IT nightmare.

We could do it if we had to, of course.

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Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by toast0 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:01PM (#26662242)

I think the best chances to get something useful would be to collect x86 consoles. x86 means you've got a well supported target, and consoles means you've got limited hardware variations.

Military could probably pressure Microsoft to give them some way to turn an original xbox into a PC; and if you give people $50 for an original xbox most will be happy.

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Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by blagie on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:31PM (#26667580)

There are a number of commonly-used microcontrollers. Z80 comes to mind. So does Atmel. So do a few common ARM variants. If you can cover those, you're not in bad shape.

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