Posted on 03/17/2023 9:48:41 AM PDT by FarCenter
Semiconductor foundry operators including TSMC, Samsung, and Intel have collectively announced well in excess of a $100 billion in new factory projects across the US, but chipmakers could end up paying far more than due to rising inflation.
Reuters, citing multiple unamed sources, reports that Samsung's Texan foundry in the town of Taylor could end up costing more than $25 billion, a full $8 billion more than when the project was announced in 2021.
The sources pointed to higher material and labor costs driven primarily by inflation — roughly 80 percent of the increases — for the facility's rapidly ballooning price tag. And it may not end there, the sources also warned that the prices could rise even further if the chip plant is delayed again.
The news won't come as a surprise to anyone who's been following US fab builds over the past year. Intel was among the first to admit that building fabs in the US would be much more expensive than originally thought. Last summer the x86 giant said it partnered with a private equity firm to offset the extreme cost of its two new Arizona chipmaking plants.
Announced in early 2021 by newly instated CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel had originally cited the cost at $10 billion apiece. However by late 2022, that figure had increased by a factor of 50 percent.
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However, it isn't just Intel. By December, TSMC announced it would spend $40 billion to build not one but two foundries at its site in Arizona. When TSMC first announced the facility in 2020, it estimated the cost of one fab at $12 billion. However due to a "range of construction costs and project uncertainty in Phoenix makes building the same advanced logic wafer fab in Taiwan considerably less capital intensive," executives said at the time.
By February 2023, TSMC had added another $3.5 billion to the project's price tag.
The WEF wants these plants dead....................
The Shortage of NEON gas brought on by the Ukraine War means that it is not available to focus the aperture for the lasers that etch these chips.
We may soon go into a long-term chip shortage. They should be building a NEON plant first.
>> The WEF wants these plants dead
But the WEF wants everyone to have a transhumanist bioimplant pod... that’s gonna take a lot of chips!
Caught between the horns of a duhlimma!
chipmakers could end up paying far more than due to rising inflation.Will someone from the White House/ Biden administration/Fed please inform them they have experts handling inflation. Besides that inflation is down. Just ask mumbles.
The WEF also wants the human population reduced to 500,000,000. That reduces, by an order of magnitude, the number of chips required.
“The WEF also wants the human population reduced to 500,000,000.”
Doing a crappy job so far, we’re at 8 billion and still growing.
An example of what inflation does to the economy.
What do you think the Wuhanic Plague, the pFizer/Moderna plague, the war on coal and oil, and the war on farming are all about?
How about bangin’ out some extra ICE vehicle chips so we won’t get stranded?
Digital currency by the fed has passed in every red state that has voted o. It, I think.
This would finish off any remaining freedoms… indeed would introduce federal slavery and obedience.
5nm and smaller are very expensive.
One EUV machine alone is 100m and you need more than one.
Pull them out, lock them out, stay inside. Done.
Oops, wrong thread.
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