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Originally Posted by kscherer
That tech is so incredibly expensive (R&D alone is in the billions) that there are only a small handful of companies that can even pretend to do it. IBM (obviously), TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and who else? AMD?
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Well, AMD and IBM are both fabless now — AMD spun off their fab business in 2009, naming it "GlobalFoundries", and GF in turn bought IBM's fab business.
I believe only Intel, Samsung, TSMC, and SMIC can manufacture 7nm and 5nm at this point. (Intel apparently can't do either at scale yet.)