Amazing looking machine! $380 million a pop. Must surely be one of the most sophisticated machines humanity has ever built? A great achievement of European science and technology (ducks).
IMO it's competition that makes better products in the end. If either party becomes a full monopolist the progress will stall (as already happened with Intel I guess)
In which sense? Intel is neither a full monopolist (AMD, ARM) nor has progress stalled (we're still getting a regular cycle of new generation CPUs which improve on the previous).
Amazing looking machine! $380 million a pop. Must surely be one of the most sophisticated machines humanity has ever built? A great achievement of European science and technology (ducks).
Im rooting for Intel. I hate the current paradigm where all the best chips are made in one factory in Asia.
Tsmc are opening 10 factories in USA at cost of $265bn
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-tsmc-us-investment...
Intel staying strong is still vital for competitiveness though
TSMC also AFAIK is forbidden from setting up bleeding-edge fabs outside of Taiwan?
Four more 2nm (or below) fabs in Arizona. That's bleeding-edge or very close to it.
Until they are built, it's all talk.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/foxconn-mostly-abandons-10-b...
IMO it's competition that makes better products in the end. If either party becomes a full monopolist the progress will stall (as already happened with Intel I guess)
> as already happened with Intel I guess
In which sense? Intel is neither a full monopolist (AMD, ARM) nor has progress stalled (we're still getting a regular cycle of new generation CPUs which improve on the previous).
Intel didn't do much to improve their CPUs while AMD was out of the competition with the Bulldozer disaster.