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Are there even any producers of low-level components & lcd displays outside China, Taiwan, Korea etc?
by holstvoogd 7y ago
Are there even any producers of low-level components & lcd displays outside China, Taiwan, Korea etc?
- ekianjo 7y agoJapan, unless it was not implied by your "etc" :)
- derekp7 7y agoWikipedia has a list of chip foundry plants, along with process size and production capacity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat... In addition to the US, there are and several throughout Europe, Russia, and former Soviet countries. Plus many countries throughout Asia.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoGreat list. Also a reminder of why they call it Silicon Valley after all... Maybe Rwanda will push towards researching making their own chipset. ARM is kind of a spec and not some specific processor is how I have understood it. You take the spec and design your own processor from it.
- pnako 7y ago>You take the spec You have to pay license fees :) but yeah that's the idea. SPARC and MIPS are a bit more open actually.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoI missed that bit, and I didn't think about SPARC / MIPS to be fair. Wasn't there another one recently opened up by IBM? Isn't RISC or RISCV? I only focused on ARM because then you can usually take advantage of Android. I do wish there were competing phone OS' though that were open source as well.
- yellowapple 7y agoDon't forget RISC-V and POWER.
- thatcat 7y agoLol, I don't see any production in Silicon Valley. Most CA production listed is around LA area.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoCalled it Silicon Valley then, fair enough!
- walrus01 7y agothat list seems to be entirely missing the upstate new york chip fab, which has been around since 2003 or so. https://phys.org/news/2019-04-semiconductor-firm-upstate-ny-chip.html https://phys.org/news/2019-04-semiconductor-firm-upstate-ny-...
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoAlso missing the ON Semi fab in Rochester that made Kodak's image sensors.
- Iv 7y agoThere's a 32 nm fab in France (ST Microelectronics) doing a lot of components. I am not sure about the displays though.