Re: ironic
fredds quote is from:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/16/google_intel_arm_analysis/
"ARM processors [..] will be pumped out of fabs operated by TSMC, Global Foundries, and Samsung, among others" [and the rest]
Whereas the affected C2000 Intel Atoms are the first of their kind, and the FinFET technology+process they use (for the first time inside Intel) are based on stuff bought in from GlobalFoundries and Samsung (among others?).
See e,g,
http://techreport.com/review/25311/inside-intel-atom-c2000-series-avoton-processors
""Intel produces this SoC on a custom-tuned variant of its 22-nm fabrication process, which has some of the finest geometries in the industry and is the first process to adopt a "3D" or FinFET-style transistor structure.
We've already seen quite a few bigger cores manufactured at 22-nm, but the benefits of this process are arguably most notable for low-power chips like Avoton. Intel is taking full advantage of its celebrated manufacturing advantage here""
Maybe Intel's "celebrated manufacturing advantage" works best when someone else's bought-in ideas (FinFET) are carefully thought about at the early stages of chip design time, otherwise as the clock turns midnight the whole system may turn into a pumpkin (in certain unusual circumstances, NDA applies).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
