hist78
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“2021 was an outstanding year for AMD with record annual revenue and profitability,”
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I think with the acquisition of Xilinx AMD may even surpass Nvidia in next 5 years. Intel meanwhile will be financially exhausted trying to catch up TSMC.
I agree but it will take time until Intel sees it that way. They may even end up similar to AMD and be forced to spin-off the fabs.TSMC founder Morris Chang stated last year that: "Above all the business model decided the success of a business."
The foundry/fabless is a stronger and better business model than IDM model.
Intel CCG (PC) op margin down 7%. Server op margin down 10%!!!
AMD margin close to Intel after AMD paid TSMC a lot of money. That mean the cost of TSMC may be significantly lower than that of Intel. However, AMD increased GPU price in Q4. Such high GPU margin is hard to sustain in the long run.semiwiki.com
When we compare the sum of capex and R&D spending from TSMC plus all TSMC's fabless and fablight partners, Intel's spending is really small.The other thing I realized that Intel's biggest selling point to investors today is basically that with huge spending and higher financial power they can catch up with TSMC technologically. A)TSMC is spending more than Intel B)TSMC's revenue will most likely surpass Intel's in 2025 according to analysts. This whole thing is going to end very badly for Intel and leave them scarred for a long time.