About time we started building our own fab plants. Having 90% of advanced chips made in Taiwan is way too risky geopolitically. Love that they’re powering it with solar too – chip manufacturing uses tons of energy
reddit455 on
that’s a big solar parking lot.
free energy and you won’t get second degree burns on your thighs when you get in the car.
Comprehensive_Bug_63 on
Thanks Biden.
srone on
And MAGA will give credit to Trump when they start production during his administration, just like they gave credit to Trump for MRNA vaccines whose research was funded by the Obama administration.
amizezo on
Thanks to Intel 18A
a_real_lemon on
They’ll give up taiwan in the next decade.
outerproduct on
Biden did this.
DigitalWarHorse2050 on
But Elon will have all H1 visa people working on the chips. So very few American jobs .
unlock0 on
“advanced” being 2 gens ago.
Current tsmc process is at 2nm, this is 4.
banned4being2sexy on
How do we keep this place open when relations with taiwan and china don’t crumble. There’s no way we could get prices as low as they can.
MolassesOk3200 on
Thank you President Biden. Fu to the Republicans for even talking about repealing the CHIPS Act.
JerryGarcia47 on
The whole layout of the plant kind of looks like a microchip
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About time we started building our own fab plants. Having 90% of advanced chips made in Taiwan is way too risky geopolitically. Love that they’re powering it with solar too – chip manufacturing uses tons of energy
that’s a big solar parking lot.
free energy and you won’t get second degree burns on your thighs when you get in the car.
Thanks Biden.
And MAGA will give credit to Trump when they start production during his administration, just like they gave credit to Trump for MRNA vaccines whose research was funded by the Obama administration.
Thanks to Intel 18A
They’ll give up taiwan in the next decade.
Biden did this.
But Elon will have all H1 visa people working on the chips. So very few American jobs .
“advanced” being 2 gens ago.
Current tsmc process is at 2nm, this is 4.
How do we keep this place open when relations with taiwan and china don’t crumble. There’s no way we could get prices as low as they can.
Thank you President Biden. Fu to the Republicans for even talking about repealing the CHIPS Act.
The whole layout of the plant kind of looks like a microchip
Potato chips?