Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has claimed that its upcoming 18A process node (essentially 1.8nm) could outperform TSMC's 2nm chips despite launching a year earlier. The comments contradict...
Intel CEO claims 18A node will at least match TSMC’s N2 performance and beat it to market::undefined
Something tells me their claims to be where TSMC is has everything to do with Xi telling Biden that China plans to take Taiwan soon.
TSMC is the lynchpin for the AI race.
Something tells me too military brass put these words into the Intel CEOs mouth. Something tells me this dude’s balls are in a vice grip, and that theyve also been given a nearly bottomless pit of money.
Even though you have been downvoted to hell, this post resonates with real efforts by the US gov’t to get ahead of foreign nations with semiconductor tech for AI. Anyone who is curious to read more, the US has the CHIPS initiative, which boasts a $52 billion ceiling for various efforts. This award amount is intended for a lot of different companies to leverage as they work to meet various requirements of the contract, not just Intel. Intel, however, is working to get a large set-aside of state funding, upwards of $90 million, through the vehicle of CHIPS. So there’s that.
Is this military funding, though? No, not DoD. But as a gov’t contracting effort to bring the US quickly to the forefront in this field, it could have implications for defense, for sure. No question.
Were this ever to actualize in any way, it would be good for countries to begin developing a semiconductor overmatch. Let alone any other need to ensure compute superiority.
Something tells me their claims to be where TSMC is has everything to do with Xi telling Biden that China plans to take Taiwan soon.
TSMC is the lynchpin for the AI race.
Something tells me too military brass put these words into the Intel CEOs mouth. Something tells me this dude’s balls are in a vice grip, and that theyve also been given a nearly bottomless pit of money.
Even though you have been downvoted to hell, this post resonates with real efforts by the US gov’t to get ahead of foreign nations with semiconductor tech for AI. Anyone who is curious to read more, the US has the CHIPS initiative, which boasts a $52 billion ceiling for various efforts. This award amount is intended for a lot of different companies to leverage as they work to meet various requirements of the contract, not just Intel. Intel, however, is working to get a large set-aside of state funding, upwards of $90 million, through the vehicle of CHIPS. So there’s that.
Is this military funding, though? No, not DoD. But as a gov’t contracting effort to bring the US quickly to the forefront in this field, it could have implications for defense, for sure. No question.
Something super interesting all this reminds me of, DoD-wise, is the Space Force’s “softwar” concept, a paper put out by Major Jason P. Lowery – it’s a premise for a future where world militaries compete in raw compute power, such as mining a cryptocurrency, to determine who wins conflicts. A kind of ‘abstract’ power.
Were this ever to actualize in any way, it would be good for countries to begin developing a semiconductor overmatch. Let alone any other need to ensure compute superiority.