I heard the DRAM shortage has started affecting PC sales, and I would think that it would be hurting Intel’s bottom line.
I remember hearing Intel was looking for customers for its fabs, so I suppose they have some capacity sitting idle.
Why not use some of that capacity to make DRAM themselves? If they can make CPUs running at multi-gigahertz and contains DRAM controllers, surely DDR5 memory is not out of their reach?
Intel can use up their excess capacities, making currently high-priced DRAM for profit, gain goodwill for rescuing the PC market, which in turn will sell more Intel CPUs as well. Sounds like a win to me. What do you think?
Edit: I know nothing about semiconductor manufacturing so feel free to tell me how Intel’s process is not suitable for making DRAM, or any other reason why it would not be smart for them to do that.
Look up asianometry on YT. They are the goto source for edutainment info about fab related stuff. In a nutshell, different kinds of bearded nude virgin witches and wizards are needed. One uses radio magic, the other creates orc capacitor armies from the fluorinated depths of Mordor.
why do they have to be nude?
Better cooling
Exhaust needs to clear for outputs and inputs.
Dunno. It is an EEVBlog rule by king Dave.
that makes sense, dave does make the rules.
Because just praying to the machine god wont work, that is for when the magic is already infused. To truly create rocks that can think, one must shred such societal confinement and bare welcome the machine spirit and allow it to pass through them.
Or so I am told.