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Semiconductor Industry Vets Predict Memories Moving to China, Intel's Last Fab
- wahern 8y ago> Their first warning went to the companies currently cranking out semiconductor memories, feeding the seeming insatiable demand for solid state storage In what region is it idiomatic to use memories instead of memory to refer to data storage? As an American I'm unfamiliar with such usage. Or is this just a neophyte author?
- sohkamyung 8y agoThis part is interesting: >“I hate IoT,” said Hirsch. “I think IoT sucks. You have these stupid tiny chips, that cost a buck or so, going into a smart building [and they] can last 30 years. One of the things [that drives] the semiconductor industry is turnover. Why do I want to sell a chip that lasts 30 years and costs practically nothing? What I want is to sell a disposable chip that goes in the garbage almost as soon as I sell it. We want to make chips that have value along with a turnover rate that lets us keep pushing out silicon.” This doesn't sound compatible with a future where we're suppose to recycle, reuse and keep using the same things for longer to reduce our ecological footprint, unless we are willing to stop the cycle of constant and fast turnover for products that are faster and/or cheaper with each generation.