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Ink cartridges for inkjet printers comes to mind. Once all manufacturers follow suit, it's a great way to massively shrink the size of the overall market. Very much an own-goal.

I read it as saying HBM is making a ton of money. Everything else is a ball and chain.

Payback not beginning until 2030 ... How many of these things did Intel actually buy last year? Has any other commercial fab bought any at all yet?

That's in agreeance with what I'm saying.

It's targeting non-SSD environments. Execute-In-Place (XIP) embedded solutions. There is no indication it uses hybrid DRAM approach so therefore it will rely on such SOCs also including internal SRAM for working memory as well as XIP caching support.

What would make sense to me is TSMC bring to the table not their technical know-how of fabricating, but rather the business operations around providing comprehensive foundry services for thousands of customers and tens of thousands of products at once. That's traditionally been an afterthought...

On the plus side, a full blown depression will lower carbon emissions.

It's fair to say Asrock aren't all that concerned. Their main concern was with possible firmware or manufacturing problems. Since they've effective ruled those out they're happy to let it rest. EDIT: Actually, looking at the photos, the dirt has come from the burnt CPU. So, it's not foreign...

They're not attributing any blame really, even the dirt mentioned is not attributed to any particular event. Treating it as a one-off that doesn't warrant any further investigation. Which is fair enough for now.

So now we have two names for the exact same thing then. That's new on me.

Well that's confusing. I thought "foundry" was the name used for the customer facing contract manufacturing division. Here it seems to be talking about the back end fabrication.

Going by the photo of HWInfo I'd say that 109.9 degC is the sensor's maximum possible reading. The real temperature was likely even higher.

The price tag on the environment is a far bigger worry than the price tag of installing the hardware.

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Apple is conspicuously missing from the fabless list.