In the wake of Intel’s financial struggles, Broadcom is looking to potentially buy the company’s chip design business, while TSMC is considering acquiring all or some of Intel’s chip manufacturing business, according to multiple reports.
ITT people are rightly pointing out that Broadcom would suck, but TSMC would also be a disaster. The world’s most critical fabs would be owned by one Taiwanese company, and building a competitor would be damn near impossible.
Chips from AMD, Intel, Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom, etc would all come from one company. Yikes.
ITT people are rightly pointing out that Broadcom would suck, but TSMC would also be a disaster. The world’s most critical fabs would be owned by one Taiwanese company, and building a competitor would be damn near impossible.
Chips from AMD, Intel, Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom, etc would all come from one company. Yikes.