• Gollum
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    191 year ago

    It’s important for Germany and the EU too.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      They will just outsource the actual manufacturing to Easter European countries with atrocious labor laws.

      I hope I’m not right.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      Yeah, the May issue of Wired magazine had a lengthy portrayal of TSMC as a company and their work ethic apparently made it very difficult to bring in American employees of TSMC to the HQ in Taiwan. Considering EU labor laws and German work-life balance priorities, not sure how well this can go 😅

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        thanks for pointing that out, interesting insights in that article, but wow that was the worst piece of writing I had to endure in a long time. It’s amazing how you can say so little with so much text.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Yeeeaaaahhhhh, I usually enjoy Virginia Heffernan’s writing, but this piece was something else. Too dreamy and poetic for most of it. Like, I get that you metaphorically stared God in the face considering the nano-tech going on in TSMC’s fabs and that you want to convey a sense of absolute awe… but it gets tiring really fast

    • Bastelwombat
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      41 year ago

      Is chip production labor intensive? My guess would be that the labor is negligible, compared to the cost for machines, knowhow etc.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Yes, it is. Of course a lot of things are automated, but the amount of effort needed to run a fan efficiently is just insane.

        Here’s a video about the exactly same discussion, just with regards to the US

        https://youtu.be/jlAWx_X5opA

  • fouc
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    41 year ago

    I guess it makes sense for them to diversify their plant locations given the uncertainties around Taiwan/China relations. Germany also has quite a lot of know-how in microfabrication and there’s already a non-insignificant cluster of companies in the sector. I guess that’s why Intel decided to go there and it makes sense for TSMC to do so at some point. In any case, we’re talking over a 10+ years horizon.

    • NinmiOP
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      21 year ago

      I just don’t want us to forget about Taiwan in the process. That chip dependency does seem to bring them a fair bit of safety guarantees.