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0 pointsmschuster919mo ago0 comments

> If Intel does everything TSMC & NV do, then they should have something like 83000+36000~120000 employees?

TSMC is a fab, not a chip designer. And NV makes GPUs and small scale SoCs like the ones in the Nintendo Switch and automotive (IIRC the Tegra SoC that powered the Switch 1 literally was an automotive chip that they repurposed).

That's quite the difference from what Intel makes: CPUs that power a lot of the world's compute capacity for laptops, PCs and servers, wireless chips (Bluetooh+WiFi), their own GPU line...

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dahart9mo ago

> IIRC the Tegra SoC that powered the Switch 1 literally was an automotive chip that they repurposed

Tegra was designed for mobile devices like smartphones. The automotive part came later and isn’t particularly relevant. Intel also makes low power SoCs for mobile devices, e.g. Atom.

mschuster91OP9mo ago

> Intel also makes low power SoCs for mobile devices, e.g. Atom.

Last time I heard that name was well over a decade ago for crappy "netbook" devices. Just looked it up, last Atom CPU was released in 2013 per Wikipedia [1]. They might still make them for embedded computing purposes with very long life cycles, but no idea at which volume.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom

kasabali9mo ago

They still make them, they're just not called Atom anymore.

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