I know there's likely no real simple answer here, but I'm curious any way.
I was just thinking that for Intel, (oversimplified) the driver for foundry progress since the early 1980s has always been Intel CPUs (and chipsets).. and a mixture of CPUs and Intel memory prior to that. (+FPGA also driving some of this).
What did the journey for TSMC look like?
For example, Apple's SoC demand followed by GPUs, CPUs, and AI/ML accelerators are driving the latest nodes (sub-10nm) at TSMC. In broad swaths, what did the earlier eras look like for TSMC? Say if we broken into:
28nm to 10nm: Apple, dGPUs, FPGAs?
65nm to 28nm: ???
180nm to 65nm:
etc.
I'm really curious about these older nodes as my primary exposure to TSMC prior to 28nm was always wondering about the next GPU, and not paying much attention to the other markets.
Thanks!
I was just thinking that for Intel, (oversimplified) the driver for foundry progress since the early 1980s has always been Intel CPUs (and chipsets).. and a mixture of CPUs and Intel memory prior to that. (+FPGA also driving some of this).
What did the journey for TSMC look like?
For example, Apple's SoC demand followed by GPUs, CPUs, and AI/ML accelerators are driving the latest nodes (sub-10nm) at TSMC. In broad swaths, what did the earlier eras look like for TSMC? Say if we broken into:
28nm to 10nm: Apple, dGPUs, FPGAs?
65nm to 28nm: ???
180nm to 65nm:
etc.
I'm really curious about these older nodes as my primary exposure to TSMC prior to 28nm was always wondering about the next GPU, and not paying much attention to the other markets.
Thanks!