TSMC is building in Europe too, specifically in Dresden, Germany, but it’s afaik a 20nm fab mostly for automotive chips.
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jaxxed@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI don’t understand why there aren’t more EU fabs, as the EUV machines are made there.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Building the machines and running them are two different skillsets. Like building a race car vs driving one.
verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I know, that’s why I said bleeding edge nodes.