But your initial argument wasn't about competence, it was an economic argument about scale. To quote, "the internet
companies are too small", "No amount I can imagine can pay off for the tapeout on the latest node for them".
Given you've pivoted away from the economics to claiming that they just can't do it, how do you explain the results from this article? Shouldn't Amazon have been too incompetent to build a state of the art server CPU? How about Google's TPUs, in-house switches, and in-house NIC ASICs? Just failed prestige projects?
Given you've pivoted away from the economics to claiming that they just can't do it, how do you explain the results from this article? Shouldn't Amazon have been too incompetent to build a state of the art server CPU? How about Google's TPUs, in-house switches, and in-house NIC ASICs? Just failed prestige projects?