3 ms·
>China should have done this 5-8 years ago. They did. Beijing handed out massive subsidies, companies started building fabs, and now those fabs are starting to
by desdiv 8y ago
>China should have done this 5-8 years ago.
They did. Beijing handed out massive subsidies, companies started building fabs, and now those fabs are starting to come online in 2018[0]. Fabs take time to build.
[0] https://epsnews.com/2018/04/26/three-chinese-companies-to-start-memory-ic-production-in-2018/ https://epsnews.com/2018/04/26/three-chinese-companies-to-st...
- baybal2 8y agoBest to say, that first gen Chinese fabs never went online to begin with. CSMC and Huali for example are a ghost towns (i worked few minutes away from both) They continued to throw tenths of billions at the problem, till they managed to make a minimally well running fabs for few niche markets.