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Re:TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia by dkjaudyeqooe on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:01AM (#33815155)
Good enough for what? The free world isn't standing still so China will always be several generations behind. The market wants the latest and greatest.

It's only if the free world can't compete will China catch up, in which case it will get what it deserves.

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Re:TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia by FooBarWidget on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:27AM (#33815343)
Good enough for 70% of dometic market demand, which analists have found is satisified by 14nm.

The thing is, "latest and greatest" is actually a niche demand, even if we don't feel like that's the case because of phones and laptops. The market for non-phone, non-laptop, boring unsexy applications that don't require more than 14nm is apparently much bigger.

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