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Third US Plant Set to Make Apple Chips Breaks Ground
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Meh, that's just how American politics and media coverage works. Biden was widely credited—and ironically, blamed—for the COVID-19 vaccines whose development was funded under the first Trump administration; Trump claimed credit for some U.S. manufacturing regrowth deals signed under Obama; and every modern president gets credit or blame for the economic conditions during their term, even if no one knows how much they're really influenced by executive policy.
diversify is just a PR word, what it really means is that seeking for cheapest labor.
How many exactly, after its buit, and the construction workers leave and the place is populated by 100 workers and 10000 machines doing the work.
They don't want to give the US an inferior product. The restriction is on where the product is made, not on where it is sold. They just want to manufacture their best product in their own country.
Well, don’t be making apolitical factual statements now…
I think any bit of manufacturing job that comes back to America is only a good thing. Whether Biden, Trump, whoever, I really don’t care (nor thin-skinned enough to care) which president is involved in the decision making. If it helps the U.S. economy, it’s a win in my eyes.
By 2028 they’ll be producing 2 nm chips in Tawain, so they’ll be able to produce 3 nm chips at the plant opening in 2028 in Arizona.
How do we know this? It is the Taiwanese government that will decide on export controls, not TSMC and if they want to keep the latest 2-3 node technology in their country for the national interest/security, they can.
The shipping cost difference between chips made in Taiwan and those made in Arizona is probably not as much as most people would believe. The glass on an iPhone for instance (not the multitouch display) has been made in the US for years.
As I'm sure everyone here knows, the amount of work to figure the least expensive route of making everything for an iPhone (or other product) is intense. Even if the cost is a touch higher, good public relations (political theater as you, and not incorrectly, put it) also has good value.
"carbon neutral" is just a bunch of marketing talk. it's like saying electric vehicles are cleaner and better for the environment than ice vehicles, while completely ignoring the process involved in making them. majority of the "green" stuff is just marketing aimed mostly at the naive who think they're helping if they're contributing to the cause, which is really intended at lining someone else's pockets.
They are though, even if you include making them - by a long long way.
Cool - thanks for the info - new story here: https://overclock3d.net/news/misc/taiwan-passed-law-to-limit-tsmc-investments-in-the-us/
I guess the law could be ammended to N-2 if Taiwan feels it needs a bigger "silicon shield"
Arizona seems to be the place for new foundries.
However, I read the headline and chuckled as when I read “Apple chips” I thought of “potato chips”. Way too much MR.
However, I read the headline and chuckled as when I read “Apple chips” I thought of “potato chips”. Way too much MR.
Given the importance of water for them, I’m mystified as to what could make Arizona a hotbed for them; you might think someplace like the Pacific Northwest or the Great Lakes would make more sense. 🤔
Unfortunately USSR were run by Trotskists like Khrushchev and others from 1953 to 1991 and Trotsky was all about making a State weaker so "silly rules" have a deep profound meaning. You probably did not even noticed yourself that you used a term "to maximize profit" with regards to a communist/socialist country(!!!). This is exactly how Trotskism works: changing the major vector of development in opposite direction in a way that is managing to bypass peoples defense mechanisms.