Bitcoin Miners Herald New Foundry Business Model

Bitcoin may have created a precedent for non-traditional customers to go to silicon foundries.

Digitimes reports that people wanting ICs to perform Bitcoin mining functions have been the among the first customers for new TSMC process nodes for the last three nodes 28nm - 16nm.

The Bitcoin miners are a new breed of client for foundries whose customers have traditionally been either design houses or IDMs wanting flexible external fab capacity.

The FAAMG companies...

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