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Yes there is one very important reason which is that Canada has zero semiconductor manufacturing expertise or legacy. Who is going to design, manage, and operat
by xadhominemx 5y ago
Yes there is one very important reason which is that Canada has zero semiconductor manufacturing expertise or legacy. Who is going to design, manage, and operate the plants? And who are the customers going to be?
- sbierwagen 5y agoWell, how did Taiwan start? At the time, they would have been competing directly with the US. The US had to possess every advantage: money, skilled labor, all your customers in the same country. Why did all the fabs uproot and move across an ocean?
- xadhominemx 5y agoHow did Taiwan get its start... well, people there invented the foundry business model 30 years ago when barriers to entry in semiconductor manufacturing where much much lower than they are today. China has sunk hundreds of billions into the industry and is barely making a dent.
- jdmg94 5y agoWell, Canada does manufacture other types of chips, there’s a huge case of brain drain to the US, we just need the government to incentivize Canadians who work in tech to stay in Canada
- xadhominemx 5y agoThe minimum scale for a fab these days is thousands of employees... so it’s not a simple matter of keeping a few years of college grads in the country.