By: Mark Roulo (nothanks.delete@this.xxx.com), January 12, 2011 7:31 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Brett (ggtgp@yahoo.com) on 1/12/11 wrote:
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>There are only a handful of companies that buy leading edge silicon. AMD, Apple, the cell phone manufactures.
>Who else is left?
The FLASH guys do, too, but they don't go with merchant fabs.
FPGAs: Xilinx and Altera buy leading edge silicon.
GPUs: ATI and nVidia do too.
Games: Cell went to 45nm in 2009. The Xenon in the XBox360 is also at 45nm
I don't know about the telecom folks (routers and switches). My guess is that they track the leading process nodes.
-Mark Roulo
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>There are only a handful of companies that buy leading edge silicon. AMD, Apple, the cell phone manufactures.
>Who else is left?
The FLASH guys do, too, but they don't go with merchant fabs.
FPGAs: Xilinx and Altera buy leading edge silicon.
GPUs: ATI and nVidia do too.
Games: Cell went to 45nm in 2009. The Xenon in the XBox360 is also at 45nm
I don't know about the telecom folks (routers and switches). My guess is that they track the leading process nodes.
-Mark Roulo
