> Will everyone just have to switch to TSMC?
Did you read the article ? AMD is going up as a % because a lot of customers are switching to Samsung (and Huawei sanctions)
Did you read the article ? AMD is going up as a % because a lot of customers are switching to Samsung (and Huawei sanctions)
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html
Latest benches have AMD and Intel winning in about the same number of tests.
By their own tests later AMD has top 4 positions for both single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads. Intel came out with their Rocket lake line of CPUs after Ryzen 5000 and Rocket lake can't match up.
Even before Ryzen 5000, anything that wasn't single-threaded Intel could never beat; and had way worse performance per watt.
Maybe you are confused because Threadripper is at the top in some above the 5000 series?
AMD is killing it with the 5000 series, but it's just barely edging out Intel in these benchmarks. The whole 2x figure was a little absurd.
I believe it took until Zen 2 for the AMD high end to beat the Intel high end in multithreaded perf, and until Zen 3 for AMD to take the single threaded perf crown across the board too.
Although it's hard to say whether that was a direct response to the threat from AMD or not.
What a lost opportunity though. Taiwan and USA could have made an exception here on some made up grounds and then back-doored the Huawei silicon.
(Not saying they should do this, but that it is something they would do and it’s odd that they didn’t.)
Hardware back doors are basically impossible to find and remove after the fact.
That's a non-sequitur: classified information is not transferred unencrypted over public networks. Isn't it a little conceited to think other countries are unable to make their own intelligence assessments, when presented with facts? The reasonable conclusion is that the considerations went beyond just security - because the UK in particular had published a public version of a report on 5G security vis Huawei. Ultimately, the decision to drop Huawei was top-down,from politicians, after a lot of diplomatic pressure from the US, and not from career intelligence people, some whose day jobs I assume includes threat assessments.
For example, consider the possibility that your 5G equipment might go down at an inconvenient time if there’s an actual military conflict.
Also, it’s not always clear what information has strategic value to your rivals. Even simple metadata, like which political leaders are talking to whom, can be revealing if collected at scale.
Doesn't make any difference, China was planning to do that all along years before, with or without the sanction.
Still might not work though, and with this ban it makes the stakes much higher for China if it doesn’t.