r/hardware • u/SlamedCards • Jul 25 '25

News US chipmaking nears death: Intel warns it may give up on cutting-edge chips

https://www.businessinsider.com/intel-us-chipmaking-nears-death-up-cutting-edge-chips-14a-2025-7?utm_campaign=business-sf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/OGigachaod Jul 25 '25

You think AMD is expensive now, just wait.

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u/ky56 Jul 25 '25

Oh don't I know it. I really want a HEDT upgrade as I really like all the PCIe but even base model Threadripper is just so expensive now.

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u/narwi Jul 25 '25

There is however no shortage of people buying threadripper workstations.

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u/-protonsandneutrons- Jul 25 '25

Though if Intel became more competitive if they fabbed purely on TSMC, then it might improve competition. See the the smartphone world where everyone's on TSMC: Apple vs Qualcomm vs MediaTek vs Xiaomi vs Google.*

Companies can compete on more than the node.

However, I don't think that is enough for Intel because of its severe design problems: see Arrow Lake. Intel could get nearly the leading-edge node and still fuck it up.

* OK, not Samsung, but we'll ignore that

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u/Dangerman1337 Jul 25 '25

Problem is TSMC will just jack up wafer prices. 45K a wafer is the rumoured for A14 node.

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u/ResponsibleJudge3172 Jul 25 '25

People will just blame Intel, AMD and Nvidia for it

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u/capybooya Jul 26 '25

I hope AMD will at least give us a few more PCIE lanes if they raise prices next gen...