Timeline for How are other chipmakers keeping up with TSMC if their processes are just the best?
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| Oct 24, 2021 at 19:07 | comment | added | Jason S | @pjc50 could I ask you some follow-up questions privately? (easiest contact info is probably my twitter account listed in my profile) | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 23:35 | comment | added | Mark | @VTNCaGNtdDVNalUy, heck, many people here won't remember the Pentium 4 era: for almost six years, AMD's chips were faster, cheaper, and lower-power than their Intel counterparts, and Intel still maintained market dominance. | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 14:49 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | @VTNCaGNtdDVNalUy I had one of those. Intel stonewalled for a very long time but eventually, very grudgingly, did the right thing. The box makers were caught in the middle. IIRC they denied it was likely to affect anyone, then offered a software fix that destroyed FPU performance (shades of 737 Max). | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 9:51 | comment | added | user105652 | Many here are too young to remember the first Pentium 90s, which ran hot and had errors when doing floating point more than 6 decimal places deep. A quick investigation found a carry-over connection was missing. It could have been a death-nell for Intel, but they moved heaven and Earth to get fixed versions to market in the same year. It was soon forgotten about and Intel marched ahead. | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 9:08 | history | answered | pjc50 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |