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This is spot on and I feel a lot of the comments here miss this context. Germany has tried this before and it was a gigantic waste - they build a fab somewhere
by dhoe 4y ago
This is spot on and I feel a lot of the comments here miss this context. Germany has tried this before and it was a gigantic waste - they build a fab somewhere at massive cost, claim it as victory because it's "invested locally", zero ecosystem materializes around it, and ten years later the fab is obsolete and shuts down. It helps nobody except the chip company.
- flohofwoe 4y agoErm, maybe I'm out of the loop, but hasn't Dresden developed into a fairly healthy technology "hotspot" (at least for "German standards")? (e.g. AFAIK the former AMD fab is now GlobalFoundries: https://www.silicon-saxony.de/nc/mitglieder/mitglieder-foerderer-detail-information/member/sisaxmembers/show/globalfoundries-dresden/ https://www.silicon-saxony.de/nc/mitglieder/mitglieder-foerd...)
- guerrilla 4y agoThat's what I've always heard and searches seem to confirm [1] 1. https://www.seedtable.com/cities/dresden https://www.seedtable.com/cities/dresden
- ahartmetz 4y agoGloFo is still producing at maximum capacity (of course, like ~every fab right now), a small ecosystem has developed, and Intel is... oops, not quite moving to the same area - 230 km away is not commuting distance.