• @Fedizen
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          47 months ago

          We are nowhere near supplying chip demands for the US domestically, lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 months ago

        They have some parts of the supply chain in ROK, and they could move to Vietnam but they would likely want to be further away from China

        It’s extremely inconvenient but it’s more convenient than going to war with China

    • @Defaced
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      27 months ago

      They already are, Intel is building new foundries in NA with government funding specifically for the purpose of not relying on Taiwan for chips. The problem though is TSMC has the smallest and most efficient chip dies, so everyone wants those chips, Intel still has a ways to catch up.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      17 months ago

      Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for new $25 billion chip plant

      But Intel has long since fallen behind the pack of semiconductor manufacturers. If they could just do their own Taiwanese foundry, they’d have done it by now and reaped comparable boosts in revenue.

      As it stands, China is the majority manufacturer of semiconductors - responsible for more than half of all chips produced - because they’re building foundries far faster and at higher quality than their American peers at Intel.

      Taiwan is the only country keeping pace with China. Losing them would only strengthen the Chinese export market.

      • KillingTimeItself
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        27 months ago

        As it stands, China is the majority manufacturer of semiconductors - responsible for more than half of all chips produced - because they’re building foundries far faster and at higher quality than their American peers at Intel.

        the reason why they produce half of all semi conductors, probably has more to do with the type of semi conductors they produce, mainly IC chips. As opposed to things like CPUs and GPUs, they’ve only recently started getting into that space. The intels and TSMCs of the world produce highly optimized designs and fab processes specifically for things like CPUs and GPUs.

        A chip with 8 and gates on it is probably vastly easier to produce than an 8088 cpu, for example.

          • KillingTimeItself
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            27 months ago

            yeah, and they’ve released a couple gpus recently, all of which have been about 10 years behind in technology, and CPUs, domestically manufactured ones, are about 1-2 decades behind. Excluding intels domestic chinese cpus.