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This one is harder for me to to understand in terms of why there is such a shortage. The likes of AMD, NVIDIA, Xilinx, Qualcomm, etc. have little choice but to fab at TSMC as they are the technology leader. Automotive chips in general are fabricated on older processes and are much more easily moved around around the globe. This shortage is more poor planning and bad luck (Renesas and AKM fires) than a Taiwanese bottleneck. There are of course raw materials issues as well, but this shouldn't have happened.
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Really, I just want to say that Renesas sucks and I have no idea why they are popular with automakers. Thankfully their stuff is not that popular in medical. Every time I've worked with their MCUs it has been a pain in the ass. Overall, it would be nice if the Japanese would stop letting their fabs catch fire. First AKM's fab just about burned down, causing a huge shortage of audio related chips and some sensors. Renesas then took on starting to produce some of their purely digital parts to help them recover and then they have a fire... If I didn't know how incompetent people can be I'd probably blame the Yakuza . Last edited by chris719; 04-14-2021 at 11:51 PM.. |
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My concern is that China will not take direct action. They saber rattle and wait for a period of internal instability that either naturally occurs or is caused by their agents. With Taiwan, I suspect they will try this route.
They tried to influence Australia this way and were caught. That's why Australian and China relations are now very frosty. Quote:
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Part of this reason of why TSM is so dominant today is that US chip companies were unwilling to invest the very large capital pools needed to create the kind of scale that TSM has. A lot of chip processing depends on the size of the factory; every tool has a unique signature. So for example; in a situation where you are making very high speed chips; only say 10% of your tools can achieve this. Which means that you have to plunk down lots of cash to get lots of tools.
How much is each tool? The most expensive is usually the lithography scanner. It runs from $25M- $50M per tool. As we start probing atomic dimensions, that just exponentially blows up. And that's not accounting for other tools in the manufacturing process. TSM for example, when they start a new node (i.e. dimension), will buy anywhere from 30-50 scanners. Nowadays, a state of the art factory runs close to $3B. US companies with their eyes on stock price and shareholder value, just balk at these prices. Only Intel is willing to do so because of the margins. Even they are struggling right now albeit because different reasons. This is the curse of Wall Street. Its so short sighted on earnings only and with it, the US ceded manufacturing to other nations. This should have been a national security issue. The US chip companies chose to do this because it got way too expensive. The labor quality here, aside from engineers, were not of the same quality as Asia too. Quote:
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Least you get to have the vaccine early!
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That was more because I work in healthcare, but you are right, there are some benefits to being older. My wife gets her second shot tomorrow morning. We are both relieved to get to this spot. Hopefully they can approve a vaccine for kids fairly soon.
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Arc: seriously. I have a retirement account now, haven't bought a car since Peter and since the hubby just bought us a puppy cuz I didn't replace Kissa either, I'm guessing I'll be soon stuck with a car of his flavor too.
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Well, I get it. It's hard to listen to a core group of enthusiasts roll out negatives on your new pride and joy. Especially if they have a ring of truth .
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To me, only insecure people bother to involve themselves in these discussions. They're not really in the spirit of true discussion and debating of the pros and cons, rather being trollish in their remarks.
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