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Why would the locations of those research organizations matter?

• NicoJuicy 5y ago
  Because while TSMC is production, the innovation happens mostly with those companies.
  • xadhominemx 5y ago
    Ya but why does it matter that those organizations are in Europe? The distance does not matter and in any event TSMC is not contemplating building a leading edge plant in Europe
    • mqus 5y ago
      Depending on how close the interactions are, having similar timezones can be pretty important
  • MangoCoffee 5y ago
    TSMC's innovation on production is impressive as well like the on chip water cooling. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/324625-tsmc-mulls-on-chip-water-cooling-for-future-high-performance-silicon https://www.extremetech.com/computing/324625-tsmc-mulls-on-c...
    • NicoJuicy 5y ago
      3nm and the future 2nm and 1nm is all with research from Europe.
      • MangoCoffee 5y ago
        just pointing out TSMC's innovation is on the process/manufacturing side. off the shelf equipment get you nowhere if you can't make it. Intel is the perfect example, it struggle with 10nm for so long and delay on 7nm. if all you needs is equipment. China already dominated the foundry business with its big fund back in 2014 before trade war.
        • NicoJuicy 5y ago
          Halve of that is still based on naming things . TSMC's naming is still very optimistic about size.