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This is maybe a dumb question, but how much would it cost for a e.g. NATO-country led initiative to create a foundry like TSMC in X years. Surely this can't be
by jszymborski 6y ago
This is maybe a dumb question, but how much would it cost for a e.g. NATO-country led initiative to create a foundry like TSMC in X years. Surely this can't be harder than building the LHC, and the diversity would clearly reduce conflicts.
- xxpor 6y agoTSMC's Fab15 300mm wafer fab cost about $2 billion more than the LHC. Not that money == difficulty, but still. It's not a completely trivial amount of money.
- koheripbal 6y agoYou can't really compare a cost which returns zero profit versus one that turns a profit. There is nearly an unlimited supply of money for projects that are guaranteed to return a profit - especially today with the bond market desperately searching for yields. ...so the moment asian chip factories become untenable - we will have fabe here in the US overnight. As an example, Israel built its own Intel fabs in under 3 years.
- cinquemb 6y ago> There is nearly an unlimited supply of money for projects that are guaranteed to return a profit - especially today with the bond market desperately searching for yields. There is nearly an unlimited supply of money for projects that are guaranteed to have positive cash flow - especially today with the bond market desperately searching for yields. Plenty of companies are loaded up with debt with negative eps with positive cashflow. I believe this distorts the gymnastics of "You can't really compare a cost which returns zero profit versus one that turns a profit" when many companies haven't turned a net profit since their existence.