Hacker News Reader

> Outside of Intel, pretty much everyone else uses TSMC to build their computing chips.

this isn’t correct.

UMC, SMIC and TI have more than 10 fabs each.

Nanya 3 fabs.

Micron > 10 fabs.

Intel > 10 fabs.

Tower Semiconductor 7 fabs.

Rohm > 10 fabs.

Fuji 4 fabs.

Fujitsu 5 fabs.

Kioxia 10 fabs.

Renesas 9 fabs.

and the list goes on and on.

Most of these are very large node sizes though [1]. In ultra-small node sizes for processors, there is basically only Intel, Samsung, Globalfoundries (ex AMD) and TSMC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...

except that GF isn't leading edge any more. Their smallest node is (I think) 12nm which is about 8 years behind.

Even Intel builds their GPUs at TSMC.

For <10nm specifically.

And it is TSMC, Samsung and Intel.

Not even amd or TI?

AMD's main manufacturer is TSMC. They also use other companies AFAIK.

Texas Instruments has its own factories in the USA but AFAIK they make other kinds of ICs than the popular ones that TSMC is known for, they do mostly analog and embedded (still important stuff).

The sibling post to yours lists other factories. There are definitely other companies.