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Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoEarlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573980
- pylotlight 2y agoIs there not a more strict rule on dupes on this site, I've seen this numerous times.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoMostly, but some repeat offenders just don't seem to care.
- philistine 2y agoMassive news. One cannot shake the idea that Taiwan is playing all the cards it can to protect it from invasion. This is one; ingratiating itself within the core of American production.
- aurareturn 2y agoWhy would this help Taiwan stave off China's advance? Arguably, this makes it more likely.
- robertlagrant 2y agoYes that's my take as well. It might be TSMC trying to survive, and America trying to deprive themselves of a future war to defend TSMC or China's inevitable taking of TSMC. I don't see how it helps Taiwan that much, but perhaps it makes it less attractive to China to take if TSMC can move.
- philistine 2y agoIt makes it more likely that the US responds in kind to an invasion.
- aurareturn 2y agoWhy? US would have the ability to make advanced chips inside the US. Why would the US be more likely to respond?
- _t9ow 2y ago> perhaps it makes it less attractive to China Taiwan's semiconductor industry is literally not even a factor that plays into China's wish to reunify. It won't make a lick of difference.
- gotschi_ 2y agoOh god no please, no TSMC is a perfectly fine company. Let them do their thing intel!
- rayiner 2y agoIs there like a book or podcast on Intel’s downfall? As a 90s kid it seems unthinkable to me Intel would be dethroned so swiftly.
- Tempest1981 2y agoChip War by Chris Miller is a great read, although not specifically Intel.
- AbstractH24 2y agoAs another 90s kid feels like there is some lesson here on how few things last forever
- Incipient 2y agoI think it's a good example of why monopolies and vendor lock-ins are bad. Essentially when there IS choice, people will go to the better option, and the market leader, if they don't keep pace, people will move if they can. It's when there is a huge exit barrier that companies get away with all sorts of garbage.
- sexy_seedbox 2y agoMicrosoft is doing just fine, for now... maybe Copilot will be the beginning of the end for them.
- maxnevermind 2y agoasianometry on YT also stratechery had few articles over the years
- chneu 2y agoAsianometry rules. As someone who works in semiconductor research and manufacturing, his videos are crazy good.
- bfrog 2y agoIts happened before to any company that focuses too hard on short term profits and gets too comfortable. Motorola GE Boeing The list goes on…
- curtisszmania 2y ago[dead]
- poisonborz 2y agoThis reminds me of Adventure Time where Finn (US Government) tells a goose and a fox to "now kiss": https://youtu.be/XHgyD6UesJo?feature=shared&t=94 https://youtu.be/XHgyD6UesJo?feature=shared&t=94