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waveparticle said:

lkrupp said:

waveparticle said:

ravnorodom said:

China is dying to get any confidential data from TSMC for chip fabrication. They must’ve brided those employees. 

You failed to understand the article. It is a different thing. George is right, to China haters every negative news is done by China. 

So what happens to TSMC when China invades and takes Taiwan while the western democracies watch and do nothing? Can we be China haters then?

China haters only use imagination of what will happen. First of all, it is not invasion. Even US has never said it invaded Afghanistan or Iraq. Democracies will use different words for the same thing. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0-WkpmTPrM

Woah, so China is a Democracy now?  

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

where are people getting the idea that the M1X is going to have 12 cpu cores?  8 performance + 2 efficiency != 12

igorsky said:

This effing weasel Sweeney has some pair on him, I’ll give him that. 

?!?  A pair of what—raisins?

Yes it does take time to tape out the interconnects even assuming that they make ZERO changes to the core micro architecture (there are always changes).  Then they need to create new masks, test the masks, and run a pre production test run.  But all this is moot—production for the M1X has already been done this spring.  They might have another batch coming, but what has already been produced has Firestorm and Icestorm cores.  We don’t even have a name for the A15 performance/efficiency cores, let alone any indication that they have been mapped into an M-series SoC.

I’ve been without a Mac at home now for several years—would love a M1X Mac Mini to do the kinds of 3d sculpting that my iPad Pro just isn’t up for.  Wonder if we’re going to see a three-tiered headless Mac set-up: Mini (Mn); Mini Plus (MnX); Pro (MnX chiplet).