why only apple and Nvidia are left buying from foundries. is the market for cpu/gpu that bad? zero innovation and other players even in niche markets?

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neogodless 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Have you heard of AMD? You know... the company with about 25% of CPU market share (at least in PCs) these days?

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-desktop...

They have 17% overall according to this chart which includes Apple.

https://www.accio.com/business/best-selling-cpus

Read up on this young startup, as I think they are going places!

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1oooqooq 5 days ago | parent [-]

AMD won't buy from Intel. and I'm quoting the article.

	▲	neogodless 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		But the article talks about Apple and Nvidia buying from Intel. You said "foundries" (plural) and clearly TSMC has other customers.

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sidewndr46 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Intel pays for TSMC to produce their chips as well