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> Why can't they keep things going temporarily by spinning up those n-th tier fab wannabes? Years long lead times. Every 200mm fab around is booked for at leas
by baybal2 6y ago
> Why can't they keep things going temporarily by spinning up those n-th tier fab wannabes?
Years long lead times. Every 200mm fab around is booked for at least 1y+ despite biggest increases in capacity in decades.
A labs scale manufacturing can be setup within months, but it takes 3-4 years to setup AMHS fit fabs on a commercially profitable scale invariably of the technology level involved.
- donw 6y ago> Every 200mm fab I know this is a typo, but that would explain the dimensional trend in smartphones...
- sanxiyn 6y agoNot a typo. 200 mm refers to wafer size.
- donw 6y agoAh, that makes a lot more sense than a 200nm chip in 2021. Still, I'm not going to get the image of a city-sized IC out of my head.
- szatkus 6y agoIt's size of the wafer. http://audilab.bmed.mcgill.ca/~funnell/InforMed/Bacon/HW/private/willoner08.jpg http://audilab.bmed.mcgill.ca/~funnell/InforMed/Bacon/HW/pri...
- totalZero 6y agoIt was a rhetorical question answered by the succeeding paragraph. > Years long lead times. Every 200mm fab around is booked for at least 1y+ despite biggest increases in capacity in decades. This is precisely my point. There is a need for more capacity.