News AMD's first 2nm chip is out of the fab: EPYC 'Venice' fabbed on TSMC N2 node

[TheSecondPower]

AMD bought capacity at TSMC's Arizona plant way last year, even before the election. The assumption I made was they were hedging against Taiwan getting blockaded.

TSMC's board approved the fab in 2020, possibly in part to get in on military chip orders than Global Foundries was getting.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-arizona-fab-investment

 

[EzzyB]

Pentium 4 launched at 1.5 GHz, not 1 GHz. Pentium 3 didn't have hyperthreading.

It's...complicated. Some even call the Tualatin Processors Pentium 3.5. They were actually released after the P-IV. I built a PC with one at the time and used it for many years. It came out of the MHZ wars with AMD and the kerfluffle over processor serial numbers in the P-IV (I vaguely remember that being a BIG DEAL at the time.) It was technically still called the P-III Tualatin, but was decidedly different from other P-III processors. (Closer to their Xeon processors.)

https://brassicgamer.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-almost-definitive-piii-tualatin.html

 

[bit_user]

Some even call the Tualatin Processors Pentium 3.5. They were actually released after the P-IV.

Yeah, I have nothing against it. I was just pointing out that P4 launched at 1.5 GHz and I've never seen any indication Tualatin (or any other P3) had hyperthreading.