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TSMC used to be 30% owned by Phillips, the same company that started ASML, the company that makes the machines that produce the chips for ASML. So the machines
by jurschreuder 3y ago
TSMC used to be 30% owned by Phillips, the same company that started ASML, the company that makes the machines that produce the chips for ASML. So the machines used to make these chips are Dutch and TSMC that uses these machines was originally Dutch. I think Europe could easily make these chips if they did not outsource so much to save money.
- bee_rider 3y agoI wonder if a company that didn’t outsource to save money on these sorts of chips could survive in the Europe/US markets… “Can” is always a funny phrase in these sorts of conversations. I mean it is clearly possible to make these chips because they make them in Taiwan. We’d just need a fundamentally different economy and long term investments, including a different labor force, probably different education system to get it…