Posts by tuchie 4 publicly visible posts • joined 5 May 2023
I am old enough to remember when Apple were using SAMSUNG to fab their iPhone chips and SAMSUNG was reserving their leading edge capacity for their own Android chips.
Back then Apple Fans would regularly claim that the older design-rules were more reliable, superior, etc.
Where did those Apple Fans go?
It is the same Lithography Tools that are sold to all Customers, but they only enables a minimum design-rule, governed by defraction limits. However that doesn't mean you have a complete manufacturing process that is capable of supporting that design-rule and doing so with sufficient yield to make it financially viable.
The question is; what proportion of Automotive microelectronics do you think requires process technologies below 28nm
Are 3nm chips required for the central-locking-system, driving the head lights or controlling the battery charging.
Maybe Silicon Carbide capacity is more critical to Automotive production than 3nm Silicon technology.
The question is; what proportion of Automotive microelectronics do you think requires process technologies below 28nm
Are 3nm chips required for the central-locking-system, driving the head lights or controlling the battery charging.
Maybe Silicon Carbide capacity is more critical to Automotive production than 3nm Silicon technology.
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