if nVdia doesn’t manufacture their own chips and sends their design document to tsmc, what’s stopping foreign actors to steal those documents and create their custom version of same design document and get that manufactured at other fab companies?

Question

if nVdia doesn’t manufacture their own chips and sends their design document to tsmc, what’s stopping foreign actors to steal those documents and create their custom version of same design document and get that manufactured at other fab companies?

In: Technology

Answer 1

You gotta like, spin drops of tin in the air until they hit an exact shape then hit them with a laser until they turn into plasma just to make a burst of light at the right wavelength to etch silicon. There is like five machines in the world that can even do it at all and none of them will print stuff some pirate brings them