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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by ajross on Sunday May 09, 2021 @10:51AM (#27096365)
My understanding is that most of the "shortage" is in older processes where capacity is shrinking as fabs offline older tooling. Customers with parts that are stored as masks (e.g. engine controllers from the 1990's) or whose design teams have lost the expertise to resynthesize the HDL (again: think auto manufacturers) have very few options when capacity in these older processes starts disappearing.

Crypto hardware is generally "just logic" which means that it's (1) fabbed on fairly modern processes and (2) generally quite portable to other processes just by recompiling your Verilog and wiring it to a different manufacturer's PCIe PHY or whatever.

Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by bshep on Sunday May 09, 2021 @11:04AM (#27096516)
I dont know much about this, but curious why you cant re-synthesize the HDL? Should the tools just be able to move it to the new process? ( Again my knowledge in this field is very limited so this may be a dumb question)