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TSMC separates chip design from manufacturing
From The Global AI Chip War: GPUs, Foundries and the Race for Computing Power
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TSMC separates chip design from manufacturing
The dedicated foundry model allowed semiconductor designers to build products without owning fabrication plants.
TSMC’s pure-play foundry model helped create the fabless chip industry. Decades later, this separation allowed AI-chip designers to scale through an external manufacturer, while concentrating leading-edge production expertise in a small number of foundries.Sources & references 1 source
