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I read the book Chip War. The US Government has been the chip industry's faithful customer. They are also allowed to step in when they have national security co
by novia 2y ago
I read the book Chip War. The US Government has been the chip industry's faithful customer. They are also allowed to step in when they have national security concerns. The pandemic chip shortage brought our reliance on overseas producers into sharp focus. They're trying to patch that now.
TSMC is top class though, so it's difficult to convince people to use anything else.
- amy-petrik-214 2y agonational security, exactly. if intel makes everr'one's chips like the old days then intel, that old friend the US government helped shield from bankruptcy... .. maybe intel can slip in a little extra circuit here or there, won't be used for anything NORMALLY but maybe if things got bad maybe hypothetically the NSA could have a teensy little backdoor added on. conversely the assumption is this is what already occurs in chinese chips, which makes the US govt want even harder to centralize all chip making under the NSA's home turf