Monday, May 3rd 2021
TSMC Employs AMD EPYC CPUs for Mission-Critical Manufacturing
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the maker of various kinds of silicon products, is the manufacturer of AMD's EPYC processors. However, have you ever questioned what CPUs are actually behind TSMC? The answer to that question is quite simple. Today, we have come to know that TSMC is using AMD EPYC processors to power their manufacturing infrastructure and tape out thousands of wafers per month. AMD has published TSMC's case study, which pointed out that the total cost of ownership has been the main challenge of the Taiwanese company. By using AMD EPYC 7702P and 7F72 CPUs, TSMC addresses the need for both reliable and high-performing server infrastructure to power the manufacturing efforts. For research and development purposes, TSMC chose the 7F72 with 24 cores and a high clock speed of 3.2 GHz, which is ideal for the company needs and purposes.
For more details about TSMC's choices and solutions, read the case study here.
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For more details about TSMC's choices and solutions, read the case study here.
29 Comments on TSMC Employs AMD EPYC CPUs for Mission-Critical Manufacturing
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AMD's revenue is up 94% vs last year, while margins are at record high 47%, how much "rampupier" could one get?
Dr Su promised they would, though.
AMD's constraints are understandable, TSMC is booked out (by AMD itself, chuckle, those console APUs are large), what NV is doing with entire Samsung 8nm is a mystery.
Perhaps they have issues grabbing enough of that expensive RAM modules.
We aren't. More is at play than that.
Crypto has its place, and so long as the world's politics continue to try and crack down on dissenters, print money like it's candy, and payment platforms try to play moral guardian interest in crypto will only continue to rise.
Meanwhile, pcpp shows nothing on AMD. Why? It's not like AMD is much less popular in europe AFAIK.
@TheLostSwede - What's your take on this? :)
TSMC: produce chips, then ships them to AMD and charge $
AMD: put chips in shiny boxes, send it back to TSMC, and charges $$
TSMC: get their silicon back for their servers for twice the price
AMD: profit
Are you trying to tell that they are not allowed to buy GPUs…..?
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
For various reasons (Pandemic included), the average US Citizen saved 33% of their income last year (it is very unusual for Americans to save more than 7%, let alone the 30%+ rates we were seeing last year). Then, the US Government cut almost everyone a $1200 check. Then the US Government cut almost everyone a $1400 check (+additional money for those who had children / dependents).
Now sure: a huge number of industries (airline, hotels, cruise lines, tourism, restaurants, movie theaters, theme parks, rental car companies...) have been hit extremely hard, and a huge number of people in those industries have been unemployed for the past year. However, for everyone who was in a position to keep their jobs, these stimulus checks + the historically HUGE amounts of savings conducted last year has caused an incredible amount of $$$$ to be in people's bank accounts right now.
An enormous number of people in the USA have excess amounts of savings right now, and people are finally feeling optimistic about the pandemic. So spending is skyrocketing: people are buying the cars they didn't buy last year, or renovating their homes... or buying new homes entirely. Its an unusual and uneven situation: some people have tons of money, while others are in a horrible position.
Sure, John. :D
Whom the heck are you kidding? You are putting money in it, to get more later on. That is the only "cripto drive".
And we have 6000+ crypto bazinga at this point. :peace:
So, if you use GPU’s for crypto than you are “burning the planet”, but if you use your GPU for games then your not “burning the planet”…..?:wtf: