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One of the most positive things to come out of advanced automation in manufacturing will be the decentralization of manufacturing and countries being able to ma
by mtgx 8y ago
One of the most positive things to come out of advanced automation in manufacturing will be the decentralization of manufacturing and countries being able to make most of the products themselves again, instead of buying them all from China.
Hopefully this will be just as true for chip and device making in the future, as then it should become much more difficult even for China to force companies to implement backdoors in the products they sell abroad. Because once those companies are discovered it would be game over for them.
- ksec 8y agoI think that is only possible for Clothes, Plants / Vegetables. Chip Fab are highly specialised, and only leading edge are from Intel, Samsung and TSMC.
- epicureanideal 8y agoAs the benefit to each next generation of chips becomes lower and lower though, that might not matter as much to some countries as independence. For example, I've read that Russia manufactures some of its own computer chips for military purposes where it doesn't trust imported chips. If any country wanted to, I'm guessing they could manufacture CPUs that would've been top of the line 10 years ago, and honestly, for most applications that would be good enough. It also might be that individual countries would manufacture chips for certain applications, and then they could buy the "world's top of the line" from Intel, Samsung, and TSMC just for high end business or gaming machines, which is a smaller market than the total market for all tablets, phones, IOT devices, etc.