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Originally Posted by chucker
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.)
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Well, I think they can do it in their labs, just not in mass production. Either way, the number of companies that can do any kind of mass-produced SOCs capable of powering modern computers (including smartphones) is pretty small. We might need to add Xiaomi to that list, since I think they are fabbing their own chips at this time? Maybe?
It's a small list. 
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