European Hardware Manufactoring is One Of The End Goals!
European Hardware Manufactoring is One Of The End Goals!
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Well the design work done via the GPLv3 can be started pretty easily. The $5K per wafer spin however is a pain and it takes a while to get it back.
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If you are getting a wafer fabbed for 5k, you are either on very old technology node, or you are talking about bulk pricing. You cannot get single wafers made for 5k on a modern node.
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If that would be great, unfortunately it’s more like $18k (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmcs-wafer-pricing-now-usd18-000-for-a-3nm-wafer-increased-by-over-3x-in-10-years-analyst). And that’s not the biggest cost issue, it’s actually the mask, which is more like in the millions of USD (https://semianalysis.com/2022/07/24/the-dark-side-of-the-semiconductor/)
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Or we could avoid the mask costs entirely
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Are you insane?
That is ultra hard to accomplish. I wish you luck you crazy bastards.
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Hei count me in, how do I join this?
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I'll chip in 10€!
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Where do I sign up?
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And to think that Philips was involved in founding both ASML and TSMC but then divested from those companies instead of securing a European stake in the microchip business. We really do live in the stupidest timeline. 🙄
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Bull used to have one of the (maybe the) best CPU design teams on the planet. But as it was mostly government controlled, and the people there were mostly "meh, computers, that's geek stuff, who needs that shit anyway, let's go have lunch instead", it died/was sold and everyone went elsewhere. Now there's nothing left. Same story, more or less for all of Europe's industries ("let's do services, that's the future!"). Bunch of idiots.
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And Siemens sold their semiconductor division (now Infineon) which could've been a european powerhouse if properly supported - we really missed multiple chances to have a strong european semiconductor ecosystem, now were playing catchup with billions in subsidies insted.
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Watch Intel going bankrupt and TSMC becoming basically a manufacturing monopoly
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Link that repo, man.
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Are we in the 'hardware as software' age yet
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What about SiPearl and their big Rhea chips, Graphcore, and the big one , Imagination Technologies? What about the slowly withering Global Foundries?
I think Europe needs to pay attention to at their existing homegrown silicon gems and save/nuture/integrate them first.
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Maybe using risc V vector extensions pushed to the limit? But I ain't no hardware engineer
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it could work in asia but would go to shit in the eu after nvidia and amd nuke it to death with lawsuits.
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I don't think so. The EU is pretty good at maintaining fair competition, especially against American companies.
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I wish it were feasible.
But maybe you'll make something GeForce 4 level after a decade of effort. Could be fun
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