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  • PeachNCream - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    Typo in "$10 billion and $11 bullion"
  • psychobriggsy - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    https://www.deviantart.com/kipine/art/Bull-Lion-70...
  • prisonerX - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    No, that's correct, they're paying for it in gold.
  • neogodless - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    HPC is an acronym for "high-performance computing" (and not my initial guess, which was Home/Personal Computers.)
  • sartwell - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    HPC = GPU
  • abufrejoval - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    IMHO that's too simplistic and temporary. HPC will also evolve into more distinct use cases and configurations while the benefits of game-GPU and GPGPU co-design will shrink.
  • Dragonstongue - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    pretty sure not, other had right, HPC = things like EPYC and such, however, something like Nvidia workstation class (not below) would quantify as HPC (if they ONLY for compute purpose) of which there are VERY few, otherwise would be GPU (general purpose unit - graphics (in all parts of course)

    ^.^
  • brucethemoose - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    Almost 10% of revenue comes from 0.15/0.18 micrometer nodes? They must be selling a ton of those, given how old and (relatively) cheap the node is... I wonder who's buying them?
  • wrkingclass_hero - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    Maybe it's used to manufacture image sensors? When Samsung released the nx-1 they said that their 32 nanometer image sensor was much smaller than the competition with Canon having 150 mm technology and Sony having about 300nm (or maybe vice versa.)
  • prisonerX - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    Those chips that don't need anything smaller.
  • ksec - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    You may not realise there is a whole world of microcontroller in all sort things, and they are extremely cost sensitive.
  • jeremyshaw - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    Even our no-name state school has done projects on TSMC .180 micron tech, and we use its properties for learning purposes.
  • eastcoast_pete - Saturday, October 19, 2019 - link

    Automotive ICs are an example of such 180 and 150 nm nodes. They are kept so "thick" as they often have to handle larger currents, and still work after years under adverse conditions, like drastic temperature fluctuations (-30 C to over 150 C) in an engine bay. Similar temperature ranges can be encountered in the steering wheel, a car with dark interior parked in, let's say, Dubai in the Summer gets toasty. Still, that airbag sensor and circuitry is expected to work (and usually does!) after ten years or more.
  • FreckledTrout - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    I have a feeling 2020 is going to be an interesting year for AMD and TSMC.
  • ksec - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    Damn this is a little late, AMD's EPYC is doing so well it is limited by TSMC capacity.
  • abufrejoval - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    Investing into outpacing the competition while you're ahead alone without a price war looming makes good sense, which is why Intel tried it, too.

    Let's just hope TMSC won't fumble the ball on their run.

    Or politics intervene...
  • boozed - Friday, October 18, 2019 - link

    I like that the photos of these fab plants are always taken from precisely the same perspective.
  • ABR - Saturday, October 19, 2019 - link

    Here is the impact of GloFlo's pulling out.

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