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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by duskwuff on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:08PM (#42311450)
> Bleeding edge processes is what Intel specializes in. Unlike Apple, they don’t need TSMC.

Intel literally outsourced their Arrow Lake manufacturing to TSMC because they couldn't fabricate the parts themselves - their 20A (2nm) process node never reached a production-ready state, and was eventually cancelled about a month ago.

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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by p1esk on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:01PM (#42312051)
OK, so the question becomes: TSMC could do it. Why can’t Intel?
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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by ac29 on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @07:07PM (#42313144)
Intel is maybe a year or two behind TSMC right now. They might or might not catch up since it is a moving target, but I dont think there is anything TSMC is doing today that Intel wont be doing in the near future.
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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by BonoboIO on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:05PM (#42312094)
They are trying … for like 10 years
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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by ubercore on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @07:09PM (#42313166)
Wasn't it cancelled in favor of 18A?
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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by duskwuff on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @10:52PM (#42314353)
It was, but that only puts them further away from shipping product.
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