• @[email protected]
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    1102 months ago

    It’s very impressive that they got such a modern process up and running in such a relatively short period of time. I understand the Arizona location is relatively new.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      762 months ago

      Yeah, they’re essentially doing trials where Arizona fab provides small amounts of sillicon that’s being validated against what Taiwan fab does. While it was planned for 2024 I’m guessing everyone thought it would be delayed. It’s quite a big win for US, they’re on track to secure domestic supply of fairly modern chips in case shit hits the fan in Taiwan.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

      Maybe, but Intel operates there so the labour pool is probably quite skilled already. Perhaps good supply chains too.

  • @[email protected]
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    392 months ago

    This is HORRIBLE! I’m a Patriotic Republican and don’t know why it’s Horrible Yet but Biden did it so it’s BAD!!

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      He did it to support the rich libtards! Not the poor working Republicans can no longer afford guns to stop the immigrants. And he hates Tiaywan !

      /S

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    That’s great but, honest question: why?

    E: LOL downvotes for asking a question. Never change Lemmy.

    • The Quuuuuill
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      182 months ago

      From a business perspective: more control over the manufacturing process and less risk of getting hit by tariffs

      • Ghostalmedia
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        52 months ago

        Less risk of tariffs on China, less risk of supply chain disruptions like with the pandemic, takes advantage of incentives from the US government, and is something that is cool to advertise.

    • @[email protected]
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      162 months ago

      Multiple sources of production.

      We learned during concentrating all of your production in one small country wasn’t a good idea. Plus having multiple sources has always been suggested in case anything goes wrong with one company you can still have some production.

        • @[email protected]
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          152 months ago

          Those countries probably didn’t pay 5.5 billion dollars for TSMC to build a new facility in their country.

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              32 months ago

              These facilities are expensive, like 20-30B for the big ones. If you’re curious youtube has some good long videos on how these places work. As far as I’ve checked all the gov grants given to companies as incentives (whether chips or energy or other infrastructure projects) only partially cover the costs of construction.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 months ago

          And are susceptible to interference. Samsung is also building huge manufacturing infrastructure in the US.

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              But then US interference most directly affects US jobs and customers. That’s a much better er situation.

              Think of car manufacturers that have done this for decades. They may have a global supply chain, heading mostly back to their home country, but they also have worldwide plants near their customers. Thanks partly to similar incentives and tariffs, my Honda was assembled in, I think, Kentucky, and was as us-manufactured as any us brand, meaning us jobs, us manufacturing, partial us supply chain. The result has been almost entirely good.

      • @PenisDuckCuck9001
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        Uhh. Who’s counterfeiting a cpu that only basically 2 factories in the world can make? Functional fakes are a thing for some really basic chips but an apple arm cpu seems like a little much.

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          82 months ago

          Perhaps unauthorized is a better word than counterfeit. The manufacturing process for CPUs often yields less than ideal chips. Perhaps they don’t hit the clock speed they’re supposed to, or maybe they consume too much power. Those chips are supposed to be discarded, but they often find their way to the black market. Sometimes those chips aren’t even failures. If a fab overproduces, they’re not just going to give Apple the extra chips. These are the things Apple worries about, and they view it as far less likely to happen if those chips are made in the US.

          I should also point out that the CPU isn’t the only chip that TSMC makes for Apple. Apple wants to make sure they’re getting a cut of every replacement part that gets sold. You can’t even swap screens on two brand new iPhones without Apple giving you a hard time.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            and they view it as far less likely to happen if those chips are made in the US.

            How naive.

    • @Hawk
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      Yeah that’s been my least favourite experience with Lemmy.

      Many replies are hostile and highly opinionated.

      I don’t have an answer for your question but it was a good question and it made me curious.

      I’m in favour of domestic production but I would always want more information about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      We’ve spent the last few decades outsourcing key industries, where US no longer has as much manufacturing and we’re way too dependent on other countries. It took supply chain disruptions from COViD to realize how much of a bad idea that was.

      We’re finally trying to recapture some of those key jobs, industries, supply chains, dependencies, starting with chips and renewable energy. THANKS, BIDEN! this is what will make America great again

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    332 months ago

    more domestic production is great

  • @[email protected]
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    172 months ago

    Bit by bit, Taiwan will be slowly sold off to China once they no longer hold the last thing that made them worthy of Western protection. Of course, there will be some harsh words of condemnation, but that’s it. That’s my theory. Sad but true.

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      122 months ago

      That’s the reason I’m rooting for everyone, including China, to do well with domestic chipmaking. Makes everyone have little less reason to try this modern day mutually assured destruction.

    • Q*Bert Reynolds
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      282 months ago

      Yes. So far, the CHIPS Act has resulted in $6.6b in direct funding and an additional $5b in available loans for the AZ facility.

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              42 months ago

              Not sure if you’re serious, but they were making a joke because Intel, who makes chips, is a competitor to TMSC the chip manufacturer from the article.

              So they played on that relationship by treating the word Intel in your “thanks for the Intel” comment as meaning the company.

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      That was Foxcon, not TSMC. And all of us have a LOT of shit in our homes made by Foxcon.

      Not that it justifies the shit Foxcon did. Just saying that Apple got a lot of flack, even though a lot of other companies should be scrutinized for their manufacturing contractor choices. Microsoft, Sony, etc.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    N00b question. Do these chips get transferred from USA to India/Vietnam for assembly and then back again to all over the world for shipping?

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      They may. But logistically I can’t see it being a problem. Each CPU is like 10mmx10mmx1mm. You could fit a TON in a 1m^3 box.

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        22 months ago

        Ideally 100,000 if my math is correct. Just be careful as there is no packing material except for the box itself.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Hmm. Perhaps we’d come to a point where these facilities are on all continents to reduce ecological impact, but I guess Apple isn’t that green.