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I think OP is saying that TSMC is saying “Okay auto manufacturers, we don’t want to manufacture chips that meet all of your requirements when we have so much or
by gbear605 4y ago
I think OP is saying that TSMC is saying “Okay auto manufacturers, we don’t want to manufacture chips that meet all of your requirements when we have so much order volume, so you’ll have to drop the requirements or find a different fab.” So the auto industry making their own fabs is exactly what TSMC wants them to do.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoAnd the automakers will likely balk at spending many dozens of billions of capital outside of their core competency. Since all the other legacy fabs are also at capacity for the next few years.
- iancmceachern 4y agoIt's rapidly becoming part of their core competency, no different than steel panel manufacturing.
- gbear605 4y agoIf the auto manufacturers don’t want chips to be part of their core competencies, then they’ll probably need to go back to building cars like they did thirty years ago.