Re:GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS
by dragontamer on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @08:29PM
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> Imagine canning your 7nm process last minute only few years before the chip shortage.
What?
The chip shortage was a shortage of cheap but inferior 28nm, 40nm, 65nm and 80nm chips that GlobalFoundries was (and still is) well positioned to profit from.
Re:GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS
by kragen on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @09:05PM
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This is a good point, but they weren't necessarily very cheap or inferior; they were just fabricated in larger process nodes, which for analog chips (as many of them were) doesn't imply inferiority.
What?
The chip shortage was a shortage of cheap but inferior 28nm, 40nm, 65nm and 80nm chips that GlobalFoundries was (and still is) well positioned to profit from.