Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants

Re:Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants by Workaccount2 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @10:10AM (#39766801)

Intel is the only domestic candidate. Global foundries stepped back from high end semi production about a decade ago, leaving only Intel.

And besides Intel, there are only two other companies on Earth; TSMC and Samsung.

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Re:Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants by cma on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @10:27AM (#39767076)

And all rely on ASML, though some of their EUV stuff was in part tech transfer from a US government collab that included Intel (EUV LLC), and that's why we have still have some security veto over selling EUV machines to China.

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Re:Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants by scarface_74 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @12:11PM (#39768560)

The thing is that it’s not leading edge chips that are the most important for most consumer goods like cars and random other products. It’s the trailing edge chips that companies like TSMC is manufacturing on fully depreciated equipment.

While it makes no sense financially for a new company to buy equipment to build trailing edge chips, it’s perfectly logical for TSMC just to keep old fans running

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