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Grimburger • yesterday at 1:11 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

They've got huge monetary losses, if you're ok with that sure but its not like any other chip fab on the planet is losing cash.

The Taiwanese are doing a lot to try get it up but all the reports on the ground level are rough.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ts...


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petcat • yesterday at 1:20 PM

> They've got huge monetary losses, if you're ok with that

USA passed the CHIPS Act and is spending close to a trillion dollars to strategically re-home all of TSMC's most advanced fab technology to Arizona as a matter of national security. Monetary losses don't matter when the point is to not be reliant or China in the event of South China Sea conflict.

I think the point of this article, and the warnings from ASML, is that Europe is not making the same effort.

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stefanfisk • yesterday at 1:22 PM

I'll admit that I haven't followed the chatter about TSMC Arizona at all. But how does what you say square with https://semiwiki.com/forum/threads/tsmc-overseas-fabs-see-pr...?

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