The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC

Re:The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC by hyperbovine on Monday January 17, 2022 @09:54PM (#29974450)

> 1 new Ford-class American aircraft

And that's the bullshit, $30,000-toilet seat, parts-manufactured-in-every-congressional-district, Defense Contractor Special™ price. It should really buy you three or four aircraft carriers.

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Re:The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC by post_from_work on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:21AM (#29975783)

Yeah the Ford-class is obnoxiously overpriced. There is no way the key metrics of an aircraft carrier (sustained sortie generation rate, survivability, long-term maintenance) improved by the leaps-and-bounds necessary to justify tripling the price compared to a late-model Nimitz-class.

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Re:The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC by Denvercoder9 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:35AM (#29976965)

> tripling the price

The last Nimitz-class carrier, CVN-77, cost $6.2 billion and was ordered in 2001, while the Ford cost $13 billion and was ordered in 2008. After adjustment for inflation in that period, it's only about 1.5x as expensive.

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