2024-10-16
It's gonna be fucking rejected either way. The blocking of NVIDIOT buying ARM was the precursor. It's the US competitors, the Apples, AMDs, ARMs, Marvell, TIs who are gonna lobby to stop it, and they'll win.
Bloomberg
Sources: Qualcomm is likely to wait until after the US presidential election on November 5 before deciding whether to pursue an offer to buy Intel
The only way a deal of this size - hell, even a deal that doesn't include the Foundry part of Intel - gets done is if Trump wins the White House. — (Also: This is a fantasy, QCOM...
2024-09-05
@PAstynome LMFAO! The renaming shit was embarrassing anyway. 18A was meant to connote it was like a 1.8 micron part, similar to TSMC's 2nm process, but that's a lie. 18A is actually 5nm. See chart at end https://www.anandtech.com/...
Tom's Hardware
Intel cancels plans to use its Intel 20A process node for its consumer Arrow Lake processors and instead plans to use external nodes, likely from TSMC
Out with the Intel node, in with TSMC. — In a surprise move, Intel announced today that it no longer plans to use its own ‘Intel 20A’ process node …