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Re:Bosch opens German chip plant by ksec on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:22PM (#27443538)
The old 40 / 28nm Fab capacity had been in very tight supply for years even before the pandemic hit. This whole semiconductor shortage only happens to caught on by Mainstream Media now as they have a new direction to blame ( TSMC ) along with politics of China.

And chip being important to cars has been known for a long time with stories going back to 2013 within the industry. So you can at least infer that Bosch knew this for a long time. This is their second Fab and it was planned in 2017 and confirmed in 2018.

It is like TSMC, all of a sudden everyone talks about it. But in pre-2015 hardly anyone knew them or heard of it. Those that heard of it only thought they Fab chips for Nidia. It was Apple that bring them to the forefront.

Sometimes I just think mainstream media is such an unreliable source of information I am wondering if there are any point reading them at all other than to gather the flow of current society sentiment.

Re:Bosch opens German chip plant by CrazyPyroLinux on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:10PM (#27443813)
> Sometimes I just think mainstream media is such an unreliable source of information I am wondering if there are any point reading them at all

Bingo. I forget the name for this law/effect, but at some point everyone runs across a story in the mainstream news about which you happen to be more knowledgeable than the author/reporter/"expert guest" and the veil is lifted for a moment and you think "wow they really don't have any idea what they're talking about!" But then they go on to trust the opinion of these same outlets on economics or foreign policy, etc.

> other than to gather the flow of current society sentiment.

Even this I wouldn't trust. Perhaps if you treat it loosely as "the zeitgeist of manufactured consent" or "what They want you to think is the current society sentiment"

Re:Bosch opens German chip plant by lasagnaphil on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:40PM (#27443972)
The name you’re looking for is the Gell-Mann anmesia effect.
Re:Bosch opens German chip plant by kalium-xyz on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:54AM (#27444667)
Sadly finding good sources is very hard to impossible.
Re:Bosch opens German chip plant by gameswithgo on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:53PM (#27444039)
What is the mainstream media today? When did they blame TSMC?

I don't know if the media I consume is "mainstream media" but I haven't seen anyone blame TSMC.

Re:Bosch opens German chip plant by imtringued on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:24AM (#27444496)
Most of them blamed car manufacturers on improper implementations of JIT manufacturing. Toyota is fine because it has a stockpile of critical parts like semiconductors.
Re:Bosch opens German chip plant by acjohnson55 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:40AM (#27444584)
From what I've read in the "mainstream media", TSMC is lauded for playing the king game with their foundry model, and pretty much everyone looks shitty for allowing themselves to become dependent on a single company on a seismically active, geopolitically threatened island.