When they say this is for military, it made me chuckle, as veterans know that almost the entirety of U.S. military electronics use very old nodes because they are more stable and less susceptible to EM warfare. Hell, our naval nuclear plants are using almost all analog circuits.
But that's fine, borrow more money from the future of our kids and grandkids as you run up the debt to feed the wallets of these fat cats. No one will notice.
the stuff that is used in the field is made with older reliable nodes.
how ever much of todays security is done in data centres where they process and store huge amounts of captured video and other data like credit card transactions.
thats where they need the newest and best technology and also where the competition has taken the lead.
they also don’t like it that he competition might have a back door in the nations infrastructure dauhua camera systems huawei routers and transceivers…
all of those things are made on the latest and greatest nodes
which as a domestic player only intel is capable of making.
also keep in mind that these small nodes are very very hard to manufacture.
samsung which basically is half of South Korea struggles with it whiles getting hundreds of billions of won to prop it up.
tsmc that is lucky it’s struggling to advance while at the top while getting infinit money from both intel nvidia and Apple. probably some sweetheart deals from their government to and of-course us chips act billions
