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Intel still makes most of its stuff in the US. TSMC is building two new fabs in Arizona, which AMD, Nvidia, and Apple all plan to contract with. They're also bu
by roarcher 4y ago
Intel still makes most of its stuff in the US. TSMC is building two new fabs in Arizona, which AMD, Nvidia, and Apple all plan to contract with. They're also building one in Japan.
If China is going to squeeze the global semiconductor industry, they'd better do it soon.
- gjsman-1000 4y agoYes, I know. But if you look inside a computer, you’ll quickly realize there’s a lot more than an Intel CPU and Chipset making the computer work. Everything from networking NICs to audio. Not much of a computer when you don’t have the Taiwanese chips for Ethernet. Or when you find out your BIOS was stored in a ROM chip that’s unobtainable.
- roarcher 4y agoI doubt the new fabs will produce things only from the companies I listed. You're right that a blockade would cause shortages, but I'm skeptical that it would be as bad as you're suggesting. The only industry that I'm aware of that was "de-computerized" during the recent shortage was the auto industry, and even that was just manufacturers temporarily leaving certain features out of new vehicles.