{"id":122204,"date":"2021-05-02T13:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/tsmc-uses-amds-epyc-chips-to-make-chips"},"modified":"2021-05-02T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:22:23","slug":"tsmc-uses-amds-epyc-chips-to-make-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/tsmc-uses-amds-epyc-chips-to-make-chips","title":{"rendered":"TSMC Uses AMD\u2019s EPYC Chips to Make Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tsmc-uses-amds-epyc-chips-to-make-chips.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The silicon Ouroboros.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>TSMC produces chips for AMD, but it also now uses AMD\u2019s processors to control the equipment that it uses to make chips for AMD (and other clients too). Sounds like a weird circulation of silicon, but that\u2019s exactly what happens behind the scenes at the world\u2019s largest third-party foundry.<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds of companies that use AMD EPYC-based machines for their important workloads, sometimes business-critical workloads. Yet, when it comes to mission-critical work, Intel Xeon (and even Intel Itanium and mainframes) rule the world. Luckily for AMD, things have begun to change, and TSMC has announced that it is now using EPYC-based servers for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amd.com\/en\/case-studies\/tsmc\">mission-critical fab control operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor automation with the machinery inside our fab, each machine needs to have one x86 server to control the operation speed and provision of water, electricity, and gas, or power consumption,\u201d said Simon Wang, Director of Infrastructure and Communication Services Division at TSMC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The silicon Ouroboros. TSMC produces chips for AMD, but it also now uses AMD\u2019s processors to control the equipment that it uses to make chips for AMD (and other clients too). Sounds like a weird circulation of silicon, but that\u2019s exactly what happens behind the scenes at the world\u2019s largest third-party foundry. There are hundreds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}