alt Hacker NewsThere are some near ready foundries in the US and in EU, not to mention South Korea. It would take a few years to catch up of course.
What I worry more about is the full lock-in of TSMC production capacity by nvidia/apple/amd/etc for their chips on their latest and greatest silicon process (aka the best in the world). There is 'no space' for performant large RISC-V implementations or other alternative (and it will require several iterations and mistakes will be made)
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iszomer • yesterday at 2:38 PM
Tenstorrent managed to secure TSMC manufacturing capacity, I doubt many other RISC-centric fabless companies would have any issues aside from aggressive competition.
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christkv • yesterday at 6:13 PM
Im the EU there is Intel Ireland at least.
Interesting point, although it's clearly not in TSMC's interest to land themselves in a monopsony situation by allowing Apple (e.g.) to squeeze all their competitors out of the market.