Why is TSMC operational already while Intel is stuck with a failing timeline?
Is Intel really that far out of it? I guess that’s what a decade plus of near monopoly dominance does to you.
Is Intel really that far out of it? I guess that’s what a decade plus of near monopoly dominance does to you.
It's probably because TSMC is in China. They're across the straits from the world center of the electronics industry, instead of across the Pacific, and they can hire the sort of people who pay private tutors for their kids instead of the sort of people who refuse to wear facemasks in a pandemic of a deadly respiratory infection. TSMC executives in Arizona have been consistently amazed at the laziness and ignorance of the workforce there.
60 years ago the US had the human capital and industrial base to found Intel. Now it probably doesn't have the human capital and industrial base to sustain it.
I was alluding to this likely being a management problem at Intel.
TSMC in Arizona is implementing fabrication processes brought to production readiness by the hard work and expertise of people at TSMC in China, which can draw on the whole Chinese electronics ecosystem that doesn't exist in the US anymore.
Because China is a country and not a region? Would you put Canada as America simply because they are all in North America?
Moreover, you are responding to a substantive discussion about how economic and cultural factors affect innovation with trivial flamebait about how words should be defined, apparently in order to promote some kind of political agenda.
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* Whose constitution is written in Chinese and calls it by a name translated as "The Republic of China".
Anyway you’re welcome to think whatever you like, but the actual political reality is that the PRC which is commonly referred to as China, and the ROC, which is commonly referred to as Taiwan, are two separate and independent countries. One is in now way part of the other (despite China wishing it were so and including Taiwan as part of China in their domestic maps).
Vast majority of people in Taiwan don't call Taiwan "China". Yes the official name is "The Republic of China" but that is rarely even used other than extreme formal settings. And even when they do use the official name, the term "China" is very rarely used apart from Pro-Bejing Camp but "Republic of China".
In "normal" day to day usage it is simply known as Taiwan. Even Chinese people calls it Taiwan.
Muddling the word when even natives don't use it is simply causing unnecessary confusion for the sake of either political correctness or blatant trolling.
I lived in China for 6 years, and also worked in Taiwan. I can tell you that is _not_ how most people in Taiwan and China use it. People in Taiwan most certainly do _not_ refer to Taiwan as 中国 (ZhongGuo), and people in China refer to Taiwan as 台湾 (TaiWan). The CCP does consider Taiwan a "renegade province" of China under its "One China" policy, but wishing something is true doesn't actually make it so, and in practical terms Taiwan is no more under Beijing's control than Ireland under the control of Westminster.
> It's probably because TSMC is in China.
The narrative on "people who refuse to wear facemasks.." needs to be diffused if not wearing them for other reasons, eg: lessening the impact of particulate air pollution while commuting on a moped or, manufacturing not adequately maintaining their HEPA air filters during the "burn-in" test flow of server racks with fans pegged at 100%, 24/7.
Speaking of diffusion, what's with some of boxed retail processors with laser engravings on the heat spreader as being "Diffused in China"? Oh right -- TSMC and other foundries are not responsible for the entire chip manufacturing cycle.