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Computer Chips Are Still 'Made in USA' (axios.com)
For all the wishful thinking about manufacturing more laptops and iPhones in the U.S., there is one sector of tech manufacturing where America remains a leader: computer chips. From a report: Some $44 billion worth of semiconductors are exported from the U.S. each year, making them America's fourth leading manufacturing export after cars, airplanes and refined oil. There are roughly 80 wafer fabrication plants (aka fabs) in the U.S., spread across 19 states. [...] An even greater share of the world's computer chips are designed domestically and made overseas by companies including Qualcomm, Apple, Broadcom and Nvidia. A bunch of the high-tech gear needed to produce chips is also designed and/or made in the U.S.
For all the wishful thinking about manufacturing more laptops and iPhones in the U.S.
If the US leads in chip manufacture, why can't it be competitive in putting the pieces together?
Why editorialize - especially in such a close-minded manner?
... going to get those backdoors in there?
Sure they still do, but China is beginning to manufacture X86 CPUs directly. It's only a matter of time until they catch up and crush Intel and AMD through undercutting, and throwing money at the problem. https://www.tomshardware.com/n...
And I work for one of them.
. . . computer chips with state-of-the-art lithography soon all will be manufactured overseas. Specifically, they will be made by exactly two companies, Samsung and TSMC, with GlobalFoundries' recent announcement that it is stopping development of its 7nm process. GF operated the old IBM facility in Fishkill, NY, and AFAIK was the last company offering state-of-the-art foundry services with a fab in the US.
Intel is still in business, of course, and even has a foundry business, but it cannot seem to successfully operate it -- substantially all of its wafer starts are chips of its own design. With the capital cost of each new-generation fab reaching $20 billion, it's only a matter of time until Intel -- which has only its internal product base of chip designs to fill its fabs, while Samsung and TSMC make chips for the entire industry -- can no longer afford the move to the next generation.
If the rest of the semiconductor industry (or the US DoD) wants high-performance computer chips, there's now nowhere to go except Samsung and TSMC. It will be interesting to see what politicians do when they realize that the best digital chips can no longer be manufactured in the US. The choice seems to be either (1) have our economy -- everything from cell phones to missiles -- dependent on chips manufactured overseas, or (2) subsidize Intel's foundry business and the semiconductor equipment manufacturers to the tune of tens of $billions, just to keep a US source of high-performance semiconductors.
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and fsck them too.
They out-slave-labored you. Their market is controlled, and yet more free. (The neocon/libertarian "free". Which means "... of a conscience / ... of morals / ... from your rights".)
"An even greater share of the world's computer chips are designed domestically and made overseas by companies including Qualcomm, Apple, Broadcom and Nvidia."
This reads as though Qualcomm, Apple, Broadcom and Nvidia are making chips. What would be clear and accurate is:
"An even greater share of the world's computer chips are designed domestically by companies including Qualcomm, Apple, Broadcom and Nvidia and made overseas."
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
TSMC and Samsung are the leaders in chip making. And second class Intel and AMD both have shady Middle-East ties from Israel and Dubai.
Don't forget, a hefty chunk of Qualcomm's - and pretty much all of Apple's - designs are not original, but instead are based on IP from ARM, a British company (although recently bought out by SoftBank).
In fact, Broadcom and Nvidia are also licencees of ARM IP as well, but less of their overall product range derives from it.
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1. Primary production
2. Manufacturing
3. Services
Services will keep things going fine. Lawyers, tax accountants, retail and beauty consultants. That is where the growth will come from.
Donald Trump is J.R. Bob Dobbs...and that is worse.
He was still the better choice in 2016!
I know which I prefer!
The author must have forgotten about all the military weapons and hardware we export each year...
Trump is the Drano president. Sometimes you need a bunch of Drano to flush out your problems.
This is a crazy article. At the end, it meekly points out that the US has a 13% market share in chip production. Given that the US started this industry, leads in design in this space, leads in capital available for high tech industry, and that the US accounts for 15% to 18% of global GDP, a 13% market share in chip production is very poor performance. This is below what you might expect for a simple commodity that depends only on domestic market size and way below what you'd expect for this industry.
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... and make them use tech and skills ripped from TSMC with their massive government-industrial spying complex.
The country? Do you mean the Taiwan Extremely Autonomous Zone? That's just part of China, right? Are you a racist who doesn't acknowledge there is a Taiwanese national minority on Taiwan kept down by the Han invaders?
I like to call it Formosa. The Dutch had the right idea.
Poor metric. CPUs aren't the only things produced in a semiconductor fab. CPUs are a very very small part of the total.
Are you the racist WindBourne who doesn't acknowledge there is a Pueblo national minority on Colorado kept down by the White invaders?
I like to call it Abya Yala. The Dutch had the right idea.
Anybody? Or is the answer too obvious - but we aren't allowed to say it, because we have to maintain the idea that IQ is actually caused by the LAND MASS that you happen to be standing on...
You'll excuse me if I don't drink that particular batch of koolaid.
The latest news from Global Foundries in New York:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-27/globalfoundries-gives-up-on-advanced-chip-production-technology
Qualcom in San Diego
https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/19/technology/qualcomm-layoffs/index.html
So, import tariffs on US-made (or just "foreign made", for "foreign" meaning "not in ASEAN, EU, etc) will increase to strangle the export of them until the US plants either shut down or have to drop their export prices drastically.
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