Intel to Outsource 'Atom and Xeon Based SoCs' to TSMC (tomshardware.com) 15 points by dcassett 5y ago ↗ HN
[–] ohiovr 5y ago ↗ I'd love to see the DEC alpha at 3nm just to spite x86. Too bad they are long extinct. Intel going down the same road. [–] basementcat 5y ago ↗ Alpha was optimized for a much older process node. If some group managed to fabricate it on a 5nm node, it would most likely not boot; at best it would burn a bunch of power and not be that much faster than its .25um cousins.
[–] basementcat 5y ago ↗ Alpha was optimized for a much older process node. If some group managed to fabricate it on a 5nm node, it would most likely not boot; at best it would burn a bunch of power and not be that much faster than its .25um cousins.
[–] baybal2 5y ago ↗ Wait a second...Atom was already made by TSMC for a few generations.And the "Xeon" they spoke about is not the one usually see in normal servers, but much more embedded, and and network appliances.
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[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 12.4 ms ] threadAtom was already made by TSMC for a few generations.
And the "Xeon" they spoke about is not the one usually see in normal servers, but much more embedded, and and network appliances.