What a mess.
Also, 97% of our antibiotics come from China.
And we just made a gift of the only accessible deposit of rare earths outside of China to China. The other one is in Greenland and are about to turn our backs on the major chip supplier, Taiwan, to let China overrun it. Soon China will be in a position to cut off our tech development and popular access to electronics and the Democrats will have given it all to China.
Make woke chips! Make woke chips!
Guess I won't be buying for a while.
TSMC is building a $12B factory in Arizona and plans to build more factories there. The first one should be in operation by 2024.
I don’t believe any of this
for reasons unknown.
car companies don’t want to be
in the car business
3.2.1. Trump’s fault!
Y former Intel ping a rooski
Odd that this story comes up immediately after I went to my usual suppliers and found the cupboard bare with only a vague promise of delivery in April of 2022 :-/
I need these processors to build working prototypes for a couple of important projects.
If the CCP takes Taiwan then we are truly up the creek...
I gathered together a supply of various processors but during design decided I needed a lot more capability...
On these processors is the legend—> TSMC
TSMC is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...
TSMC is the big Kahuna when it comes to powerful processors and SOCs. If that foundry is lost our way of life will change :-/
https://www.tsmc.com/english/aboutTSMC/company_profile
TSMC just bought a 1700 acre plot north of Phoenix and announced that it plans to invest AT LEAST $30 billion to build a new campus and factory there. It looks like the CCP’s threats to Taiwan may have motivated TSMC’s move to offshore their production to the U.S.
Related, from a couple of weeks ago...
Excellent article. As is usual Government caused this problem and certainly will not be the solution.
There is a very large chip fab facility being built in Arizona by the Taiwanese. Hope they get up and running soon.
The author is correct about “Fabless” companies that just do engineering and out source Fab.
Much of that has to do with EPA regulations and Democrat NIMBY tendencies. They tie you up in court for years if you try to build a “foundry”.
We also need a government interested in making sure that we develop a non-political, engineering oriented and MANAGED Chip industry more robust than any other on the face of the Earth.
If we truly want to make America great again and make America first we need to establish a list of industries and products that are national security priorities.
Samsung settles on Taylor, Texas as site for new chip plant
At the manufacturer I work for, a componet that cost 17 cents pre covid now cost $32.00. That id when we can find it.
“assuming the U.S. government can bend the semiconductor market to better meet its will.”
HAHAHAHAHA. Because Chomo Joe has just been so wildly successful creating a great business climate. He did wonders for the oil industry and the XL pipeline. I’m sure he will be just as helpful creating an environment where companies will want to invest billions of dollars to start making chips in the USA. OH YEAH. AND allow the mining of the resources AND allow the energy required to produce chips. AND free to hire the best and brightest instead of the most “diverse” group. AND to minimize federal labor regulations... AND...............
But for possible investment opportunities too.
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We can thank our globalist traitor pigs for this.
My graphics card died. Really bad timing
Nearly all drugs and medical supplies, rare earth elements, steel, building supplies, clothing and shoes, chemicals, the stuff of modern life, come through China. Books are printed in China.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the British wanted us to be raw materials producers consuming finished products. That meant poverty and dependence.
We are Eloi who like a pretty place with no icky factories and pollution. We are Jacob trading away our birthright.
We are closing down power plants and mandating electric cars. We will take twenty years to build a power plant or factory with all the impact statements, lawsuits, affected groups input, environmental studies, lawsuits in series, minority set asides.
>>The world’s top two leading chip companies are Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics. These two Asian firms, combined, control more than 70 percent of the semiconductor manufacturing market.<<
We have the dumbest damn leaders on the planet that they would endanger Americas national security this way. Allowing so much sensitive technology to flow out of our country all the sake of $$$corporate profits$$$.
>>97% of our antibiotics come from China.<<
Along with thousands of other life saving drugs and ingredients used in Rx formulations.
I’ve believe it for decades, this is not your daddy’s capitalism and free markets. This is a perverted sort of globalism designed to weaken over many years the United States.
These leftist, globalist would sell their mama for $$$.