> Most fabs build will be running 24/7 until they crumble to dust. This is false. Fabs get decommissioned from time to time. > TSMC still operates fabs built

> Most fabs build will be running 24/7 until they crumble to dust. This is false. Fabs get decommissioned from time to time. > TSMC still operates fabs built in eighties. I mean, kind of. TSMC's oldest operating fab is Fab 2; it was built in 1989 and it started production in 1990. https://investor.tsmc.com/static/annualReports/2016/english/e_12_1.html# https://investor.tsmc.com/static/annualReports/2016/english/... Fab 1 was decommissioned twenty years ago.