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Wikipedia lists about a hundred fabs in Japan already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis
by simonh 5y ago
Wikipedia lists about a hundred fabs in Japan already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
This might not achieve the very latest cutting edge nodes, but there are diminishing returns for going very far down-node.
- troymc 5y agoThe article says, "Japanese chipmakers had dropped out of the race for large-scale chip development by the 2010s and instead contracted out the production of cutting-edge semiconductors to companies like TSMC." and the new plant "would be TSMC's first chip production operation in Japan".
- simonh 5y agoSure, but the basic infrastructure needed to support fabs is still there.
- zinekeller 5y agoYes, I knew that, but the chip crunch also affected mature nodes, so the capacity for mature nodes is also clearly not enough.