Posted on 05/14/2020 6:02:29 PM PDT by Candor7
Where does Nvidia produce their graphics chips, outsourced?
Why?
Most of them are outsourced to TSMC and Samsung, among others. They have very low volume fab capability of their own, mostly for prototyping and exemplar production.
Yes, he is!
Life is good again.
Yes, but the Carrollton production gear went in part to *Ireland*. China wasn’t the first outsourcing country for US companies. I was also pointing out that local asshats can also drive off industry, so we shouldn’t just be blaming ‘greedy executives’ or ‘foreign blandishments.’ Some of the blame must be placed on the people who run off industry.
I won’t disagree about there being less tech manufacture in the States than there used to be. I was simply pointing out that Apple’s Austin, TX investment wasn’t just a tiny marginal one to make the Mac Pro, nor was it really just recent.
Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.
Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership wave the American flag and present his name when doing so. All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump.
Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.
The way this whole thing developed starting with the Italian fashion industry areas controlled by the Chinese commies hit by a runaway CCWV (Chinese Communist Wuhan Virus) breakout occurred in Wuhan the politburo closed off Wuhan but did not warn the Italian Socialist government or the Pope with whom the Chinese government had good relations with.
But certainly violated that understanding when the socialists should have been informed and allowed to deny those Chinese workers who replaced Italians in those factories taken over by the Chinese travel to and from China particularly for their New Year while this was occurring.Where they seem to have done almost the same here with Smithfield Pork processing after the Chinese were hit with swine flu which destroyed their pork industry by their takeover of Smithfield Pork processing. When learning of the Wuhan shutdown Trump cut off China air travel with the exception of only allowing American citizens returning..But was immediately attacked by CNN and the alphabet media outlets as a racist Republican action.
Sure looks suspicious particularly when crews of US naval vessels somehow wind up being infected by it while visiting certain Asian ports before that showed up in Italy.
But to stop the return of manufacturing of products back to the US that went to China. China backers here who’s family members are making millions from China through their political connections will be hit hard are also claiming that Trump’s alleged stock ownership in a quinine pills maker claim its a controlling interest in a product to be totally ineffective and when used requires a severe restriction of movement when near a possible carrier known as a shutdown because of its alleged rapid transmission spread by our media.
Same company. TSMC.
Commentary on what U.S.-based entity will foot the bill for this facility:
TSMC Building a 5nm Fab in Arizona as the U.S. Government Gets Involved
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“Ariz. seems to be a long term popular venue to build chip factories.
Is climate a strong factor in building and operating same?”
Congressman Andy Biggs told me that despite their political differences the entire AZ congressional delegation and Senators are lock-step in doing what is best for AZ and that includes bringing businesses to the state.
A different but perfectly valid interpretation of climate....
They should also not be used to allow domestic industries to become fat and complacent. Harley got a protective tariff in the 80s, decided to market retro and nostalgia instead of actually competing technically, and now they’re bleeding out as all their tech is 80s level at best and they’re running out of customers willing to buy their crap.
Arizona is high desert. We are not Saharan but Sonoran.
We are talking about TSMC and their advanced 5 and 7nm process.
Mainland does have chip fabs but nothing really advanced.
5nm and 7nm is REALLY hard to do and VERY expensive.
Global Foundry tried to make it work and abandoned it.
EUV lithography on layers below M5.
The building must be very stable to make it work.
There are only three companies who do advanced semi fabrication.
TSMC (Qualcomm, Apple and I think AMD)
Samsung (IBM and others)
Intel
Let's not forget how many of our STEM students are foreign, and have their loyalties elsewhere. This needs to stop.
Lack of earthquakes another reason for fabs built in AZ. Very expensive equipment and expensive wafers in process damaged and thrown out.
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