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There is no such thing as a “smallish” chip manufacturer that can manufacture leading edge chips. It’s about scale. If it were that easy, Apple, Amazon, Goog
by scarface_74 1y ago
There is no such thing as a “smallish” chip manufacturer that can manufacture leading edge chips. It’s about scale.
If it were that easy, Apple, Amazon, Google AMD, Nvidia, etc who all design their own chips would have done it.
- alfiedotwtf 1y agoFlip side: why would Apple, Amazon, Google, AMD, NVIDIA etc build their own when they can outsource it cheaper? Companies are run to make a profit… they don’t care about sovereignty as long as the money is coming in.
- x2tyfi 1y agoBecause it’s extremely lucrative and strategically valuable to the US
- alfiedotwtf 1y ago… but the shareholders are global?! That’s not really a compelling argument unless you made it a requirement that all major/strategic companies must have 100% domestic ownership! BUT - all you then need to do is create a Delaware LLC that buys the strategic stock, which is owned by $SCARY_FOREIGNERS
- SJC_Hacker 1y ago> Because it’s extremely lucrative It could be extremely lucrative if they get it right. Simply trying to copy TSMC would also be a poor strategy. Companies have "core competencies" (or should). The manufacture (not design) of high-end silicon has never been one for any of these companies except Intel, and they have just lost big time. > strategically valuable to the US Yeah, they don't care.
- gizajob 1y agoI agree but by the same logic intel could have done it and didn’t manage to so far.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoIntel couldn’t because the science is too hard to do with the scale of only your own designs. Intel had to stop competing with their own designs and open up their fabs like tsmc.