Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in 1981, with the love affair starting on a Sinclair ZX81 in kit form and a book on ZX Basic. He ended up becoming a physics and IT teacher, but by the late 1990s decided it was time to cut his teeth writing for a long defunct UK tech site.
When it comes to manufacturing high-end processors and other chips, one company dominates the market and that's TSMC. The second largest producer, Samsung, is well behind and Intel makes the merest of impressions in the sector. So it's perhaps not a surprise to learn that a daily newspaper in Korea has said that the latter two are planning to meet up and create a 'foundry alliance' to make headway in the chip market.
But while it's in a distant second place, Samsung makes far more chips than Intel does, so it raises a very obvious question: How would it benefit from being in a chip-making alliance with Intel? . It was originally planned to be introduced with Arrow Lake until Intel switched to employing TSMC to make all the tiles.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.Both companies also have production and packaging facilities around the world, and at a time when the US and EU are tightening restrictions on exporting chips to certain countries, having a wide local presence makes it easier to combat those limitations.
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