Re:Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China
by seanmcdirmid on Monday October 23, 2017 @12:07AM
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Ah, ya, and Singapore was just flash (did they fab there before), and that is just Micron now to boot.
At 65nm, they aren't fabbing CPU there, probably just supporting chips.
Re:Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China
by baybal2 on Monday October 23, 2017 @04:26AM
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It puzzles me why Intel Chinese fabs are located in such middle of nowhere where their logistics costs will be sky high
Re:Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China
by seanmcdirmid on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:53AM
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Huh?
Chengdu doesn't have a fab and is hardly in the middle of nowhere. Normal logistic costs.
Dalian is in a highly industrialized liaoning province, again highly populated and lots of resources. Again, normal logistic costs.
If they put it in the middle of gansu or qinghai or maybe Northern Yunnan or southern Sichuan (pretty much the Tibetan plateau), that would be the middle of nowhere.
Re:Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China
by gruturo on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:12AM
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As far as I know (which is admittedly very little), Intel's fabs require massive amounts of stable electricity and clean water. Maybe proximity to such resources is their driver in this case.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_...