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The Netherlands has its own semi supply chain, from photolithographs to chip design to printing the actual chips.
by zer0tonin 11mo ago
The Netherlands has its own semi supply chain, from photolithographs to chip design to printing the actual chips.
- yourusername 11mo agoI don't think that's right. They make one of the many machines you need for semiconductor manufacturing. The NXP fab in Nijmegen makes simple components on a outdated 140nm+ process with 200mm wafers. Unless there is another fab that is making actual modern chips?
- sehansen 11mo agoST Microelectronics makes 18 nm chips and 6 out of their 7 fabs are in Europe: https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/about/manufacturing-at-st/our-facilities.html https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/about/manufacturing-at-...
- justin66 11mo ago> They make one of the many machines you need for semiconductor manufacturing. That's an especially obtuse way of minimizing the significance of their manufacture of the most complex machine ever made.