Building the machines and running them are two different skillsets. Like building a race car vs driving one.
Comment on TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan
jaxxed@lemmy.world 1 day agoI don’t understand why there aren’t more EU fabs, as the EUV machines are made there.
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
TSMC is building in Europe too, specifically in Dresden, Germany, but it’s afaik a 20nm fab mostly for automotive chips.
verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 23 hours ago
We had global foundries, among a myriad of other fabs. We have unions and labour laws, that’s bad for margins and CEO pay, we lost bleeding edge nodes due to corporate greed and US intervention.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
GlobalFoundries is still in Dresden, but the smallest process they have there is 12nm. They’re just not at the forefront anymore and focus on other market segments.
verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 13 hours ago
I know, that’s why I said bleeding edge nodes.