America’s semiconductor boom [video]

Post by eru » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 9:19 AM UTC

rsynnott wrote: post #88

eru wrote: post #69

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Though the relevant governments in Poland and Germany probably spent a lot of time and effort (and money). Only some of them they will get back. But I guess that's a risk they knew they were taking.

I doubt there was much; the sort of outright subsidy the US sometimes does is usually classed as unlawful state aid in the EU (there are exceptions; in particular member states were allowed to bail out/nationalise their banks in the financial crisis. But subsidies to random foreign companies would generally be illegal; see the Apple tax case).

Post by christkv » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 9:54 AM UTC

fungi wrote: post #9

how competitive will american made cpu's be? will american consumers just end up paying n * more for same product that the rest of the world gets from taiwan?

Post by dukeyukey » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 10:52 AM UTC

tick_tock_tick wrote: post #78

nebula8804 wrote: post #36

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I keep seeing this in every industry. "We can't give up America because they buy so much" "China needs the American market because they can't make up the numbers for the rest of the world combined in the short term" Can people here help answer where the heck does everyone have the money to buy all this stuff? Especially post COVID with all the layoffs? The US is only 5% of the world population. Europe isn't that poor…

> Europe isn't that poor and many chunks of Asia have a lot of wealth now. Europe is that poor and while lots of Asia has wealth not by comparison. > Yet America's appetite and more importantly capability of absorbing all manner of goods remains unimpaired...how?! We are just that much richer. It's honestly mind-blowing how much more money the average American has then anyone and everyone.

Post by dangus » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 11:01 AM UTC

sam_goody wrote: post #79

khuey wrote: post #75

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Apparently China Airlines and Starlux are both going to fly that route next year. I have a hard time imagining there's demand for one let alone both.

Phoenix is the fifth largest city in the United States. It is also one of the major hubs of the west, being in a good location (midway north), having good weather for planes, and having America West headquartered there. I would think there should be plenty of traffic going through there to Taiwan, similar to the amount going through a hub such as Chicago or NY.

Post by mlindner » Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 11:03 AM UTC

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #86

I found an interesting thread on the /r/semiconductors subreddit discussing what it is like to work at TSMC https://reddit.com/r/Semiconductors/comments/1m96m4f/my_expe...