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Re:Japanese companies fight for share of EUV chip technology... by baybal2 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @07:27PM (#25897670)
> Can you build up a short-lived production line for an integrated circuit and then tear it down but leave all of the infrastructure in place to pivot to something else?

Not at those margins.

Most fabs build will be running 24/7 until they crumble to dust.

TSMC still operates fabs built in eighties.

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Re:Japanese companies fight for share of EUV chip technology... by totalZero on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:19AM (#25899941)
> Most fabs build will be running 24/7 until they crumble to dust.

This is false. Fabs get decommissioned from time to time.

> TSMC still operates fabs built in eighties.

I mean, kind of. TSMC's oldest operating fab is Fab 2; it was built in 1989 and it started production in 1990.

https://investor.tsmc.com/static/annualReports/2016/english/...

Fab 1 was decommissioned twenty years ago.

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