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If China invades Taiwan and we haven't had a chance to spin up chip infrastructure on the American continents, we're in for a world of pain. How much of the inf
by mmastrac 2y ago
If China invades Taiwan and we haven't had a chance to spin up chip infrastructure on the American continents, we're in for a world of pain. How much of the infrastructure can be bootstrapped without the existing TSMC infrastructure?
- timschmidt 2y agoIntel has foundries in the US. GlobalFoundries has some in Germany. The old IBM research facilities in New York are likely still producing on older nodes, along with the former TI facilities in Texas. We wouldn't have the latest greatest nodes operational for a while, and there would be shortages, but I don't think it would endanger military production or other critical systems.
- GrumpyYoungMan 2y agoDon't forget Samsung's fabs in South Korea. Wikipedia maintains a list of semiconductor fabs worldwide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat....