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by IshKebab 539 days ago
Why not? You might have to redo lots of phys work but essentially all of the RTL will be the same and that's the vast majority of the work.

Intel doesn't have demand because they only make Intel chips, and they haven't been doing too well lately.
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wbl 539 days ago
They feed into each other especially for anything that isn't a vanilla gate. Got a deeply ported SRAM with bypasses? That might fail synthesis if it is too choked by wire rules for the size of the cells so now it's banking time.
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IshKebab 538 days ago
Right, you might get a different PPA...

I think realistically you wouldn't port the exact same design between manufacturers. That would be a waste of money unless one manufacturer is really rinsing you.

More likely you'd switch manufacturers when you planned to switch process nodes anyway, in which case the increase in workload probably wouldn't be too bad.

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