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Phoenix is geologically dead, no seismic disruptions to mess up any of the lithographic processes. Also the region is a desert (Arizona seems like a clever way
by 7speter 4y ago
Phoenix is geologically dead, no seismic disruptions to mess up any of the lithographic processes. Also the region is a desert (Arizona seems like a clever way to say the science fiction sounding “Arid Zone,” doesn’t it?) so it shouldn’t be prone to flooding, though lots of potential for static electricity, iirc, but I guess these companies have some way of easily preventing that?
- raziel2701 4y agoDoesn't a fab need to consume tons of water? That whole southwest are of the US is entering longer and longer periods of drought. Seems like setting up shop further north into a water-rich area would be better.
- jjtheblunt 4y ago"That whole southwest area" is too generalized, as Arizona, by necessity, has been expert at water use in contrast to what surrounds Arizona. (can't find the citation that i want for that, though)
- genmud 4y agoIronically the new TSMC plant is being built down the street from a place that uses dynamite for its rock quarry. I live about the same distance from the quarry as TSMC is and I can sometimes feel/hear them when they use explosives. I wonder if they know yet, lol.
- ravel-bar-foo 4y agoThe value of a rock quarry is probably so small relative to a fab that this story ends in TSMC buying out and shutting down the quarry.
- 7speter 4y agoIsnt the intel fab across the street from the tsmc fab?