Intel remained the biggest spender at $16.55 billion last year, but its growth rate was just 3.1 percent, far below Samsung’s.
Intel, the only U.S. chipmaker that designs and manufactures semiconductors in-house, is believed to have focused its spending on boosting yields of its 18A process (1.8 nanometers) in its foundry. Despite the push, Intel reported an $18.8 billion loss last year.
Nvidia ranked No. 2 in total R&D spending with $12.5 billion last year, a 47 percent jump from 2023.
It’s crazy that Intel spends significantly more than Nvidia on R&D and yet they’ve been lagging on delivery for many years now.
I figured it is because GPUs are less complex and have larger improvement impact per dollar than the x86 CPU.
Is this the case or is fabrication just fabrication?
I suspect Nvidia benefits from not having fabs, a like for like comparison would include some percentage of TSMC’s R&D spend.
OpenAI, burning billions on KTLO: What?
Meanwhile, Canada spends $1B on all biomedical research for all diseases.
