Nuvia/Qualcomm lawsuit and Softbank.
replyNow if only they would go back to being "Acorn RISC Machines" and make a nice desktop home computer again...
replyOne can dream.
DGX Spark is pretty nice. It could be cheaper if they removed the NIC though.
replyI have the ASUS variant. I like it well enough.
replyI see the NIC as a form of future proofing, but we'll see.
My Ryzen 9 mini-PC from 2 years ago outperforms this thing in raw CPU Though.
Fabless. Like AMD and Nvidia. So I would think about it more as branding and packaging than Manufacturing
replyHuh, many companies use TSMC, in fact, probably all of them use TSMC, including Intel, yet there are only a few who dominates in performance. There are much more in designing chips than what you just listed.
replyIntel uses its own fabs for certain IP, tsmc for others yeah. As far as I've seen the latest greatest Panther Lake that stuff is made in intel's arizona fabs.
replyThere's a big difference between just providing IP and actually doing the physical design, manufacturing and packaging. You can't just send your RTL to TSMC and magically get packaged chips back.
replyI haven't ever ordered an ARM SoC but I also wouldn't be surprised if there were significant parts that they left up to integrators before - PLLs, pads, SRAM etc.