This is encouraging
An oversight by our clueless politicians trying to set tech policies or?? Makes me wonder about those other fab plants we’re building.
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I need to check whether Hilary had any effect upon the level of Lake Mead, but it seems unwise to put a fab plant into any area without a plentiful source of water.
Could they send them to Intel for packaging? There was a rumor that Apple had been considering having Intel make some of their chips (not x86) in the future.
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The article asserts that parts need to go back to Taiwan for packaging like it’s the only source for that service. Singapore has historically been a bigger source of that, as has Malaysia. Neither are out of reach of China, but both are far less threatened. The other missing point is that packaging is in this places because of historical labor costs when they were (and in some cases still are) labor intensive. There’s been a lot of automation and process improvement in this area in newer high density parts.
It’s not a non-issue, but it’s not the all-black situation the article asserts. It’s pretty light gray.
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Yeah, complete guff!!!
TI has lots of fabs here in the US and packaging in other countries is not an issue in any way.
Maybe this is more political than technical. The politicians and media make it sound as though the main reason the US would help Taiwan against a Chinese invasion is because we need their Fabs. Sounds like a pretty cheap defense move.
The future is glass?
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More trouble for TSMC:
They may be less skilled, but are foreign workers skilled enough? It might be like replacing the highly skilled @Bill with a less skilled programmer to write a xcopy macro.