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It's naive to assume that America makes all the processors. Intel and AMD have fabs all over Europe and the Middle East. Germany and Israel are known for their
by criley2 12y ago
It's naive to assume that America makes all the processors.
Intel and AMD have fabs all over Europe and the Middle East. Germany and Israel are known for their processor fabs.
Processor makers are multinationals, not national companies. Both AMD and Intel are bigger than the US.
If China stops buying from major multinational US companies, the entire Western tech industry will be hurt. No American jobs are lost when a German AMD fabricator has less demand.
- voidlogic 12y agoAny company that wants to have a presence in the US must abide by the list as far as I know. Even further to the point AMD and Intel are actually headquartered in the US...
- criley2 12y agoThe point was to say that this is a Western problem not an American problem, because the ramifications against multinational companies are multinational.
- voidlogic 12y agoSorry- I read what you said as trying to make the opposite point. Re-reading it on context of what you intended it makes more sense now.
- Crito 12y agoMost Intel fabs are in the US, particularly the new ones. Only one Intel fab is in Israel. All but one 14nm Intel fabs are in the US (the exception is in Ireland). The Intel fab in China is 65nm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sit... AMD is now a fabless company. They contract with other companies that own fabs.
- raverbashing 12y agoTrue about AMD Just to add they use GlobalFoundries (US) but also TSMC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC There are several outside of the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricati...
- guan 12y agoSamsung also has a big fab in Austin, Texas, which makes many of Apple’s chips.