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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU ... by smoldesu on Saturday October 30, 2021 @03:08PM (#29051464)
It doesn't help that Apple bought the entire manufacturing capacity for 5nm silicon from TSCM right before the chip shortage hit. I think the next few years are going to get very competitive though, and I'm excited to see how Intel and AMD respond.
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU ... by phkahler on Saturday October 30, 2021 @04:09PM (#29051921)
Apple has done that before. IIRC when the original iPod came out it used a new generation of HDD. Apple went to the drive manufacturer and said "we'll take all of them" and they agreed.
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU ... by taf2 on Saturday October 30, 2021 @03:30PM (#29051631)
How is Amazon able to product their arm chips for aws? Assuming those are not the 5nm?
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU ... by smoldesu on Saturday October 30, 2021 @04:14PM (#29051962)
There's still 5nm silicon for sale, but just not at TSCM (the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world). Companies like Samsung are just now getting around to mass-producing 5nm, and afaik there were a few domestic Chinese manufacturers who claimed to be on the node too.

As for Amazon specifically though, I've got no idea. They're a large enough company that they could buy out an entire fab or foundry if they wanted, AWS makes more than enough money to cover the costs.

Re:Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU ... by pezezin on Saturday October 30, 2021 @09:57PM (#29053857)
Nitpick: it's TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU ... by smoldesu on Sunday October 31, 2021 @12:13AM (#29054410)
Good catch, my mind always interprets it as Taiwan Semi-Conductor Manufacturer
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU ... by pezezin on Monday November 01, 2021 @07:10AM (#29065236)
Yeah, I always need to think twice before writing or saying their name. Same with ASML. I guess there is a reason why TLAs are much more common than FLAs.