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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 04:12 PM EDT |
Well I think both TSMC and Intel are selling us the same
bill
of goods on Gate
Last HKMG Process Technology having better
yield rates. Either that or SAMSUNG
has Magically solved
any
problems with IBM's purportedly bad chip wafer Yield
rates.
Because every Exynos version has been superior in
performance
and
their successful switch of Apple's A5 and A5x to 32nm
process has delivered
outstanding results as well.
TSMC After touting their GOD LIKE
capacities and
finally moving to 28nm half Gate Last Process
Technology....
now a bit overwhelmed!
Now just look at Nvidia's Tegra 3
processors coming off
Austin Texas lines, Yield rates are really high and we've
recently seen a custom kernel dropped into Jelly Bean
Android
on a Nexus 7
clocked to a blistering 2GHZ and scoring 8000
on
benchmark, doubling every
score of any other chip! ....if
that doesn't say SAMSUNG has the Winning
Combination right
now at 28nm/32nm, I don't what does.
Samsung Nvidia Team
Up... Ramp
Up
Tegra 3 with potential to produce Tegra 4 chips (w/ CUDA)
on
SAMSUNG
28nm Gate First Process Technology
But I think you forget
going from one process technology to
another can always go bad and give poor
Yields on either
process. That's why
Apple didn't take A5 or A5x to TSMC in
the first place and
pushed Samsung into extending their contract, prior to
suing
them last year. When TSMC was just moving to the Gate Last
28nm half
node process. Apple it appears decided (probably
rightly so), to just design A6
on TSMC's Gate Last Process
from the start. The problem is TSMC has been having
some
monster issues. Intel may have just been lying about 28nm
Yield issues
swallowed up in their enormous chip prices.
Because SAMSUNG has most definitely
proved Gate First is
indeed GOOD at 28nm/32nm Gate First.... if not
Great!
Now at the same time, Samsung and the entire Global
Platform
Alliance has decided to go with Gate Last only
when they move to 20nm/22nm
node. But.... at 28nm/32nm Gate
First tech their chips are not only performing
well. In
factthey're blowing the competition away in consumer's
hands, with
Gamers are in Graphics Nirvana!
Consider this: Nvidia's 12 core (12
pipeline)GPU is the
only mobile chip to ever be capable of delivering True Real
Time Dynamic Lighting (Ray Tracing) with full 3D Shaders
like Desktop
GPU's.
Although these competitor's chips can run Android fooled
into
believing they're running Tegra 3.... they crash when they
hit the heaviest
graphics with 3D shaders or lots of
dynamic
lighting. Tegra 4 will have Cuda
and that's what it appears
Samsung was looking for. In order to get away from
having
anything
from Apple at all (along with Google and Android. Even if
OpenCL is part of the Khronos
Group API's. Apple has made sure you know they
made it, so
they own YOU! ....that's why the entire Open Source
community
isn't touching it and it being ridiculously
complicated!
Finally
SAMSUNG is not going to renegotiate with Apple
everrrr.... no matter if they
ban them to kingdom come.
Apple
is going to have to come to SAMSUNG crawling
like the Worm
they are, in order to get back into their good graces. So
who
do they have left for a second foundry source.... Global? I
don't think so.
They've been
plagued with with problems at 28nm too. So besides SAMSUNG
what
other ARM fabs are there? Not Intel for sure, they
won't make chips that
compete against themselves. It'd be
sure suicide!
So SAMSUNG
although
they've saved their arse many times before...
Apple
has now turned on them and
stabbed them in the back, one
too many
times.
You Reap What You Sow
and Apple has been sowing too many
rotten Apple seeds to deserve a second
chance on either
screens or chips from SAMSUNG. Besides.... SAMSUNG must be
doing pretty
good. If they're going to continue CAPEX spending of 42
Billion
this year (2nd only to Intel) and are set to beat Intel
next
year! ^_*
......I'm thinking Apple's copying Microsoft's,
"EMBRACE EXTEND EXTINGUISH"
tactics will come back to haunt
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