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beatle@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Which is all foundry investment. None of the technology needed belongs to Taiwan. Intel is ramping up for Intel 3 and are already doing high volume production on the Intel 4 using EUV.

Foundries are extremely expensive and everyone was happy to let Taiwan do the whole thing. Now with the geopolitical risk, investment is ramping up into chip foundries again. Once that is done the manufacturing will be mostly on par. Which is completely different to your first post about wizards and no one else can do it nonsense.

We are however going around in circles so I’ll likely leave it here.

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dragontamer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Intel 3

Intel doesn’t have the ability to accept orders from many other companies. One of Intel’s few customers, Altera, was bought up by Intel.

There’s a reason why I was talking about GlobalFoundries from Buffalo, New York. They were the last 3rd party fabricator of USA.

So no. Intel cannot make iPhones, even if they come a year or two later than TSMC’s 3nm process (TSMC was making the 3nm iPhone 15 last year), it is meaningless in the scope of Apple or Qualcomm.

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