Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan

Re:Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan by mlyle on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:14AM (#28836612)

> India @ 1/5th of PRC economic size would have to sustain ~25% growth just to maintain with China growing at modest 5%.

If India is 20% of China's GDP, and growing at 5%, and China is growing at 5%, India will remain 20% of China's GDP.

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Re:Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan by dirtyid on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:29AM (#28836702)

Base effect.

5% of 100 is 5.

5% of 500 is 25.

India needs to grow at 25% of 100 to match China growing at 5% of 500. China will eventually only grow at 1-2%. India may eventually catchup by sustaining 10%+ growth. But it's a long road and forces not in India's favor.

E: to clarify, I mean maintain same amount of growth as China, not maintain same proportion of growth. Same proportion increases actual gap.

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Re:Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan by mlyle on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:59AM (#28841335)

Same absolute gap is kind of a weird metric, though, isn't it? If China is 500 and India is 100, and China grows to 50,000 and India grows to 49,600, you would call that "the same gap" but I would call it near-parity...

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Re:Sony to join TSMC on new $7B chip plant in Japan by dirtyid on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:05PM (#28842979)

It's not a useful metric but illustrates how much India is actually lagging vis-a-vis PRC. The gap is widening not converging. The actual situation is even worse if you factor in things like forex trends.

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