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This news announced two weeks ago is not really good news for those expecting to see this new generation of computers, running Windows RT OS and no more based on x86 processor but on ARM CPU core, coming on the market. The reason invoked by Toshiba was “delays in getting adequate supplies of components” and, even if Toshiba did not specifically mention the guilty supplier, it appears that the computer was based on OMAP platform from Texas Instruments, the chip being manufactured on TSMC 28nm technology. Let’s make it clear from the beginning, this blog is not aiming at putting shame on a specific and respected chip maker like TI, neither on the largest and well respected Silicon foundry (TSMC), but rather to bring my point of view about the probably needed evolution in the Foundry/Fabless/Fab-lite equation.

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