The Fab Finally Made Money. For Whom, Exactly?
Samsung’s foundry business posted its first monthly profit in June, the first time it has been in the black in years. A foundry makes chips other people designed, and this one bled money for a long stretch before the numbers finally turned. The strip runs that moment through the ThakiCloud lens: own the fab, and the upside stays yours. Paxis and Metis push the logic until Hyper, invoice in hand, starts to sweat.
Source: RT @jukan05: According to Korean media reports, Samsung Foundry turned profitable on a monthly basis in June. This marks · twitter
What this means for ThakiCloud
The lesson from a foundry turning profitable is blunt: rent your means of production, and the profit prints on someone else’s ledger. AI infrastructure works the same way. Rent GPUs from a public cloud and the better your models get, the fatter the bill. ThakiCloud is built the other way. Metis runs training and inference inside your own facility, and Paxis operates the agents on top of it. On-prem costs more up front, but like a fab, it crosses a line where the upside starts flowing back to you. The automation behind this very blog runs on that same footing.
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