Posted on 12/20/2021 3:00:45 AM PST by Kaslin
The Biden administration has pushed the CHIPS for America Act to provide funding in support of semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. The argument for the bill is that this type of manufacturing is critical for national defense.
The bill passed the Senate in June with significant bipartisan support. What are the merits and demerits of this bill?
Arguably, the world leaders in semiconductor manufacturing are Samsung, Intel, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The first company is renowned for its standalone memories. The second two companies fabricate logic parts, which invariably embed memories. The first two companies have state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the United States, and the third has agreed in principle to build here, too.
Along with many other companies, what distinguishes companies such as Apple and AMD? They don't actually fabricate chips. Apple designs the supercomputers that go into cell phones. AMD's engines dominate the gaming industry and have even broken into Intel's monopoly business supplying high-end datacenters. With respect to bleeding-edge parts, companies such as Apple and AMD are chip design houses. Manufacturing is outsourced to design-compatible TSMC.
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He doesn’t know the difference between a potato chip and a computer chip.
You ever get the feeling that you’re on a speeding bus and there’s nobody driving? That’s the feeling I get every day with Biden in office. I cannot believe we have THREE more years of this guy in office, 3 years and one month exactly starting today. I don’t know how we can possibly survive if the democrats manage to steal the midterms.
The devil is in the details of this legislation, of course. But ideally chip, manufacturing worldwide should not be in the hands of a few companies either in Red China, or vulnerably close to the Red Chinese.
The devil is in the details of this legislation, of course. But ideally chip, manufacturing worldwide should not be in the hands of a few companies either in Red China, or vulnerably close to the Red Chinese.
Liberty and prosperity are compatible with much smaller government. Toward this, government programs, offices, agencies, and departments need to be eliminated. Government interference in markets is only compatible with more progressive fascism.
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It's TIME to DownSize DC!
Restore the Constitution!Size DC!
Joe Biden has no clue, Globalist mindset Bureaucraps embedded in DC are driving this.
Bump
Subsidize semiconductor manufacturing in return for a gov’t backdoor into every electronic device.
Wonder why ASUS is not mentioned? You open just about every PC made and all the parts say ASUS. The only reason they don’t make CPUs is because copyrights have them locked out.
ASUS has done some incredible work over the years, the auto industry would have done well to approach ASUS over the chip shortage issue.
ASUS built a motherboard for the Intel 486 CPU back in the day without even having the CPU to work with or test it. They went to Intel and requested a CPU to test their board. At the time Intel could not get their own motherboard to work correctly with their own CPU. ASUS and Intel plugged one into the ASUS built motherboard and it worked great as is without any additional modifications needed.
They know what they are doing, have the experience, equipment, and infrastructure, to replace anything coming out of China.
What is ASUS ?
Tell this to Ford or Jeep!
It shows, doesn’t it?
You open just about every (cheap) PC made ... anything coming out of China.
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Mainland China makes crap chips which is why they declared dibs on Taiwan’s ASUS and TSMC manufacturing facilities.
Oil and gas is critical for National Defense, too.
Hopefully, the 2022 elections will make him a ghost.
Intel is the only major USA company who manufactures within the USA.
All the rest use TSMC or Samsung as their fab.
Intel’s “embrace” of diversity during Obama was one of the key reasons it lost the lead in advanced semiconductor.
Pat Gelsinger is working hard to bring back the old Intel.
Asus does fine motherboards but they lack the $$$ and material science background needed for advanced semiconductor design.
Your average 5nm fab now costs over 5B to build and then you need the demand to keep it full and running 24-7.
Even more important, you need to keep pushing the edge to the next 2 generations in smaller test fabs.
Bringing chip manufacturing back to the US - or at least expanding our capability - is a good thing. However, I’m not sure allowing government to have an even bigger say in how business is conducted is any better for us than letting the Chinese build most of our chips and boards.
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