Re:Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US
by Turing_Machine on Thursday January 16, 2020 @04:39PM
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Doesn't Samsung have some fabs in Texas?
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Re:Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US
by trynumber9 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @07:41PM
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Yes. It was Samsung's first 14nm fabrication facility. They were planning to upgrade it but haven't seen any articles since 2017 on that.
Re:Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US
by bradstewart on Thursday January 16, 2020 @04:52PM
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Samsung does have a fab in Austin (maybe elsewhere), but it's mostly flash in the 50-180nm range, not a leading edge process AFAIK.
Re:Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US
by bob1029 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @06:21PM
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The Samsung LSI/flash lines in ATX are not a leading process node in terms of all foundries (i.e. TSMC), but last I heard they were pretty close to the bleeding edge of what Samsung is capable of in their Korean factories. The ATX lines were always intended to be exact copies of their Korean counterparts, but this may have deviated in recent years (I have been out of the loop for ~7 years now on their internals).
Some of the major reasons behind Samsung building that factory in Austin were to satisfy Apple and to also leverage the more "open" innovation attitudes of the average American worker.