TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant

Re:TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe c... by RicoElectrico on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:52AM (#27957535)

I wish :) There's no infrastructure or know-how in Poland regarding microelectronics. The only related field is ASIC design - a few offices of American companies like Synopsys (>100 employees), Silicon Creations (a few dozen employees), Cadence (a few dozen as well). Intel has a massive R&D site but they don't do hardware design here, maybe except FPGA.

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Re:TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe c... by adrian_b on Monday July 26, 2021 @06:03AM (#27957608)

In the more distant past, i.e. up to 1990, all the Eastern European countries, including Poland, had semiconductor plants and many people, both engineers and workers, with good know-how.

However, after 1990, the plants have been closed and most of the skilled people have gone to USA, Canada or Western Europe.

So for the present time you might be right, it could be difficult to find enough experienced workforce, unlike many years ago.

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Re:TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe c... by bserge on Monday July 26, 2021 @08:00AM (#27958374)

You can find it in the west... But then you have to pay them a lot heh

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Re:TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe c... by cromka on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:59AM (#27957588)

Somewhat related though, that Poland has the only memory module fab in EU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilk_Elektronik

https://www.goodram.com/en/

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Re:TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe c... by tester34 on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:54AM (#27957551)

I'd bet that if they were opening actual edge fab in Poland, then the priest would appear to sprinkle EUV machine

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