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AI Is A Modest – But Important – Slice Of TSMC’s Business

July 21, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Given the exorbitant demand for compute and networking for running Ai workloads and the dominance of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co in making the compute engine chips and providing the complex packaging for them, you would think that the world’s largest foundry would be making money hands over fist in the second quarter. …

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Cisco Fights The Merchant Network Chip Makers On Their Own Turf

March 11, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There is nothing wrong with buying a compute, storage, or networking appliance where the ASICs and software both come from the same supplier. …

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Betting On Mass Customization In A Post Moore’s Law World

September 29, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

If you wanted to wrest control of datacenter compute as embodied mainly in the Xeon SP processor away from Intel, there are a number of approaches that you might take. …

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Switch ASIC Thoroughbred Sprouts Wings To Attain Unicorn Status

August 4, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

It takes money to make money, and if you want to break into the switch ASIC business in the datacenter, even if you are a low-cost designer of such chips, you had better have some rich friends to help the business take off. …

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Switch Silicon To Relieve Choke Points In Servers

October 10, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Say what you will about the ruthless dominance of hyperscale companies, but they are managing to propel information technology at a rate, and in ways, that the enterprise and high performance computing markets can only dream of. …

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