Taiwan Semiconductor Sets Sights Expansion Into Japan After Record Q2 Sales
Posted on 07/15/2021 6:49:52 PM PDT by blam
Yowzers. The US is so obviously weak with feckless leadership that even TSMC is planning for the looming Chicom invasion of Taiwan.
TSMC makes roughly 70% of the (critical) chips that are used in automotive applications. Imagine what life will be like when China controls all that production. The supply chain across all tech dependent industries is gonna be lit AF.
This is probably the dumbest idea Intel has ever done.
GF has no technology worth buying.
Their 7nm process is totally broken.
Intel’s 14nm is better than GF’s.
Bizarre situation if Intel ens up doing the manufacturing for AMD.
I’ve been an Intel shareholder for nearly a quarter of a century, and though I’ve made money on the stock, it seems to me that it hasn’t been a particularly well-run company since at least when Andy Grove left as chairman in 2004. I don’t have the numbers handy, but I’d imagine that they’ve underperformed the broader market. They bombed out with modem chips for Apple. They’ve lost quite a bit of market share on CPUs not only to AMD but also to Qualcomm and now Apple silicon. My gut feeling is that, based on their recent track record, if INTC management thinks it’s a perfect time to go big into the foundry business, they’re probably buying at the peak.
They should have listened to President Trump. The multinational corporation’s afflicting America are evil. We need to anti-trust action to bust them up. we also need to re-in state the federal law that outlawed foreign ownership of American media.
TSMC manufactures for AMD
No one I know uses GF anymore.
Yup, if China invades and takes over Taiwan, the planet is in deep manure.
Forgot to add “They should’ve listen to Trump when he told them to relocate manufacturing back to the United States.”
Now these outsourcing corporate fools have had their pants pulled DOWN standing naked. Go woke go broke.
IF it’s any comfort TSMC is building a chip plant in Arizona.
Grove was an engineer first, businessman second. His replacement wasn’t. Bean counters running complex engineering and production organizations that require innovation to maintain relevance often doesn’t end well. Intel seems to have proven this once again.
Thirty billion dollars is a lot of money to pay for a chip fabricator.
There’s probably only a few companies that make leading edge chip fabricating machines.
Hello, this is the President of Intel, we’d like to expand our semiconductor production capability....
“Their 7nm process is totally broken”
It wasn’t broken. They dropped that program years ago.
“GF has no technology worth buying.”
They have foundries. AMD buys from GF.
Well, I was just going on the article’s assertion that “AMD remains a big customer for GlobalFoundries...”
We tried to get their 7nm to work for over two years.
The transistors scale very poorly.
The reason they dropped the program is no one was interested in a process 30% slower and 30% more expensive than their 14nm process.
Stranger still, Golbal Foundries was originally AMD. AMD split off their chip fabs in 2009 and created GF.
In other words, Intel has bought the old AMD fabs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalFoundries
No they don’t.
They used to make processors for AMD but that hasn’t been the case for years.
Is it Foundaries or Foundries? Somebuddies spellczecher is broken.
Doesn’t it seem strange for a chip company to manufacture in Arizona? I thought they needed lots of water.
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