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So Trump would destroy Taiwan’s economy just to benefit America’s number one adversary, the CCP/PRC?
Trump may sometimes have unusual...
Sep 29, 2025
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For Apple, AMD and Qualcomm, the majority of the chips TSMC made for them, are for overseas use, e.g. for phones sold outside the US.
Sep 29, 2025
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And destroy the world economy, along with total economic cataclysm at home. He is one of men who can actually do that.
They can try to...
Sep 29, 2025
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1c uses EUV as well:
AI overview:
SK hynix:
This company is a leader in EUV adoption for DRAM, utilizing five or more EUV layers for...
Sep 29, 2025
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3D DRAM is next ?
Sep 29, 2025
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Actually, for these three companies, 1c is less than a 10% shrink in design rule from 1b. So, like SRAM, planar DRAM has effectively...
Sep 29, 2025
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Major memory companies are accelerating their investments in 1c (6th-generation 10nm-class) DRAM. Samsung Electronics has already begun...
Sep 29, 2025
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Not a problem. Trump can simply ban ASML from supplying their wares to Taiwan. That's the "rule based world order" we live in now.
Sep 29, 2025
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ASML Holding, the Dutch giant with a near-monopoly on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines essential for advanced AI chips, is...
Sep 29, 2025
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TSMC N6 and TSMC N5 came out at the same time (Q1 2020). TSMC considers N7, N7+ and N6 one node, that is how they report it. Same with...
Sep 29, 2025
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From Wikichip N3B is ouch too many layers and info on how many layers Intel uses EVU from what i know on Intel 4 the EUV use is pretty...
Sep 29, 2025
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From my notes:
TSMC N7 is DUV, TSMC N7+ uses 4 EUV layers, TSMC N6 uses 5 EUV layers, TSMC N5 uses 14 EUV layers.
AMD and HiSilicon...
Sep 29, 2025
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N7 was all-DUV, N7P had some EUV layers but incompatible design rules so no IP porting. IIRC (we didn't use it) N6 was a shrunk N7 (with...
Sep 29, 2025
I actually laughed out loud on this one. I am not a regular Barron's reader but I had thought highly of them.
Here is the authors bio...
Sep 29, 2025
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Yes, N3B is 25 EUV layers and N3E is 19. TSMC calls it yield learning.
Intel 4...
Sep 29, 2025