alt Hacker News"Silicon Valley" doesn't get to make the decision unless they are willing to send some of those hundreds of billions to TSMC up front. (TSMC isn't going to want future promises of business either since those are worth very little.)
"Silicon Valley" doesn't get to make the decision unless they are willing to send some of those hundreds of billions to TSMC up front. (TSMC isn't going to want future promises of business either since those are worth very little.)
I don't disagree. I wrote the top comment here basically saying the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764223
If big tech prepays for the entire fab, I think TSMC would do it.