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They (GF) do not make DRAM. They might have an eDRAM process inherited from IBM, but it would not be competitive. You’re correct that DRAM is a very specialized process. The bit ce…

There are no large scale pure play DRAM fabs that I’m aware of, so Apple is (more or less) buying from the same 3 companies as everyone else.

Both cases occur in industry. The parts that only go through additional testing (radiation lot acceptance testing aka RLAT) are commonly sold as “radiation tolerant”. Parts that un…

Not a developer in the field, but I believe generally the HLSL isn’t packaged in the game. Instead an intermediate format called DXIL is produced at build time from the HLSL, and t…

Not sure if its from Quickturn’s acquisition, but Cadence still makes a hardware simulation platform called Palladium.

Couple of likely reasons: 1. Process limitations (no high voltage devices, poor analog characteristics, limited resistor choice, etc) 2. The skill set for power device/analog IC de…

Core voltage is going to be in the ballpark of 1V, and given the stated power consumption is 15kw that means a minimum of 15kA. So, it is indeed a lot but the math checks out.

Hardware compatible doesn’t mean very much in this case. It’s a different ISA so you’ll need a different tool chain and recompilation (possibly rewrite given that assembly is very …

High end NICs like Mellanox ConnectX are probably more similar to the 82586 in terms of breadth of functionality. They have (R)DMA, hardware timestamping, encryption, etc. Although…