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Intel to set up new Fabs to rival TSMC and Samsung
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all_repair:
Awareness needed that the total price is not only on the initial building but also on the continuous subsidy in the daily operation for the foreseeable future.  Senses shall prevail that can only be justified for production of selected components.
Red Squirrel:
Good on them. I never realized how most companies don't even make their own chips and that TSMC is basically the only company around that does.   I just assumed that if you are a company in which your breath and butter is a chip such as nvidia or AMD... you actually make it!  I guess we live in a weird world where IP is worth more than actual ability to make something.  Just come up with an idea, and contract it out and slap your name on it and sit back and let the cash roll in!  Except when the chip company has production issues and now you're dead in the water since you can't make your own product.   :palm:

TSMC is also going to be building a new fab too.  For something as complex as making chips it seems like a bad idea to only have a few actual fabs, best to build redundancy into the supply chain and have more than is needed.
rsjsouza:

--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on March 26, 2021, 06:33:40 am ---I guess we live in a weird world where IP is worth more than actual ability to make something.  Just come up with an idea, and contract it out and slap your name on it and sit back and let the cash roll in!  Except when the chip company has production issues and now you're dead in the water since you can't make your own product.   :palm:

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Indeed; value can be misplaced as it has to be agreed by the economic system but, when the agreements start to falter, tangible assets such as manufacturing, silicon, intellectual capital, logistics gain proeminence. The economy based on IP alone is easily collapsed when copyright violations are abound.

As Elon Musk said, an economy has to be capable to make stuff: "if you don't make stuff, there's no stuff".

https://fee.org/articles/elon-musk-s-economic-truth-bomb-to-joe-rogan/

I saw this first hand in my home country, where a flourishing industry in the 70s was dilapidated and nowadays is reduced to very niche markets and imports.

Interesting times indeed.
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