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Sort of incredible that Germany is getting decade old technology for this much investment.
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> Curious why they've chosen Dresden though. Because many foundries are located there like GlobalFoundries and Bosch
Eindhoven (NL) would have been obvious as well (NXP, ASML, Infineon, Philips)
(Also such a large economy can offer better (aka larger) subsidies if they want to)
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> Curious why they've chosen Dresden though. Because many foundries are located there like GlobalFoundries and Bosch
Eindhoven (NL) would have been obvious as well (NXP, ASML, Infineon, Philips)
It's probably good for the EU in general to have multiple silicon hubs.
Sort of incredible that Germany is getting decade old technology for this much investment.
Wonder if the Taiwanese govt at some point will step in and block these onshoring measures as a matter of national security. If countries are less reliant on manufacturing within Taiwan, its one less reason to stand up to Beijing's one China principle.
TSMC alone has no control over if the Chinese government will commit such aggression, if they would do their whole company strategy based on fearing the CCP, there's no way they can be successful.
Sort of incredible that Germany is getting decade old technology for this much investment.
There are plenty of application were structure size, performance and/or power draw doesn't really matter.
E.g. Automotive / Industrial applications
Wonder if the Taiwanese govt at some point will step in and block these onshoring measures as a matter of national security. If countries are less reliant on manufacturing within Taiwan, its one less reason to stand up to Beijing's one China principle.
Sort of incredible that Germany is getting decade old technology for this much investment.
The likes of Bosch/Infineon/NXP are not interested in bleeding edge fabs, they sell embedded CPUs from very old fabs they still have. So this is an advancement for them, and totally sufficient for embedded stuff.
No, TSMC 22 has no eFLASH, expensive SRAM, lacking of analog capability, lacks high temperature tolerance, and is tied to multiple patterning design flow.
TSMC 40 on the other hand is the last portable node, with MRAM, eFLASH, high temp, some mixed signal, RF, no MP, and everything else your soul desires.
Great to see they coming to Germany. If Tesla could build a car factory here from scratch, I'm sure that they can build chips too. Curious why they've chosen Dresden though. Anybody knows how much the government is willing to invest? Missing some tangible figures.
5 Billion Euros of public money out of a total of 10 Billion invested. So it is more like "the German state builds a fab, with TSMC and others also investing a little".
I wonder what them "providing" 5 billions as news reports put it actually means. Is this a loan, a gift, or some other type of deal?