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exabrial01/15/20262 repliesview on HN

Hopefully this makes them think twice about I dunno, putting chips into cables.


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aalimov_01/15/2026

I think you are referring to thunderbolt cables with their signal conditioning chips, and if that’s the case then I would like to say that TSMC isn’t making those chips. Afaik Intel and maybe some others make the chips that go into thunderbolt cables.

alt22701/15/2026

Putting computers into cars was the real killer.