Re:The Intel Split
by threatripper on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:54PM
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What is the problem with an Intel design manufactured in a TSMC fab built on US soil? There will be fabs on US soil in the future but they might not be owned by Intel.
It probably depends on whether the chip is a commodity chip or something special
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...
hmmm I dunno... maybe China taking Taiwan and banning all export of electronics to US, leaving US with pants down
If China invades Taiwan, the rumor is that Taiwan's strategy is to scuttle everything at the last second so China isn't additionally incentivized to invade just to get the electronics manufacturing infrastructure.
So there won't be any electronics manufacturing to ban at all, but it leaves the US in the same place.
> We don't need small nodes for military/aero chips. It would suffice to keep some old fabs running to secure supply.
What? How do you think the military works, via smoke signals? They need computer, a LOT of computers to operate day to day. And that PCs for just boring clerk work. Not to mention the idea that old chips would somehow be good enough to keep up technologically, both military and economically.
> The US needs fabs but they don't need Intel as a company.
Oh yeah? They will just a walk a engineer corps to a fab and have them press big red manufacture button few million times to make enough chips right? Can't be more difficult than that...