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I don’t think this is necessarily true. The large investment required to set up a fab does benefit them in certain ways. It reduces competition. If the machines
by nynx 5y ago
I don’t think this is necessarily true. The large investment required to set up a fab does benefit them in certain ways. It reduces competition. If the machines were 50 million instead of 150 million, I’m sure they’d like that. If the machines were 1000 dollars, I doubt they’d be happy about it.
- gjsman-1000 5y agoRight, but it's so easy to comment on the internet "if only they could reduce the price," as if that's not something TSMC and Intel literally hire engineers for to do whatever they can. (Yes, ASML builds the machines in the end, but they have a very tight relationship with their customers and their needs, to the degree it is almost a co-engineering job.)
- nynx 5y agoThat’s a fair statement. Point taken