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Will it make much of a difference, though? Sure they can fabricate the chips, but a lot of the raw material needed will come from places like China.
by _trackno5 4y ago
Will it make much of a difference, though?
Sure they can fabricate the chips, but a lot of the raw material needed will come from places like China.
- myself248 4y agoRight now, the raw material will come from China because that's where the resources are developed. But once a fab is in place, it makes sense to push more to develop local resources, or at least among more diverse allies. It doesn't make sense to do that now, because you'd just be shipping local resources to a foreign fab, so that's still a bottleneck. But I think having a local fab is the tipping-point.
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- sounds 4y agoIt's a move back down the supply chain. Fine, they haven't completely verticalized the entire supply chain. It's still a strategic move.
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- baja_blast 4y agocopper, silicon, gold, aluminum are sourced from many countries so they wouldn't need any raw materials from any particular country. Also the machines used to make the Fabs are sourced right next door in the Netherlands
- audunw 4y agoWhich raw material specifically? Norway is the fifth largest exporter of Quartz. Turkey is third. I think there's enough Quartz in Europe for silicon. For silicon wafer manufacturing there's Okmetic Oy in Finland and Siltronic AG in Germany.
- omginternets 4y agoChina is getting a fair bit of the precursors from Africa. European countries are in a fairly good position to do business with African countries.
- exyi 4y agoIn the very least I think it's easier to stockpile resources than chips.