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Besides cost of the tools, you got the local labor unions. There are stories about how empty the parking lots are at 4pm and the only ones still working are the Taiwanese. Actually one can go see for themselves, park yourself at 303/17 and see the line of trucks leaving and another stream far...
You miss my buried joke, you didn’t read the complete statement did you 😂
“miss the fact > 70% of all Silicon comes from China and their claimed rogue province”
US along with its allies continues to embargo from China advanced chips, equipment and blocks access and products from China tech companies.
Take Huawei as an example is just a shell of itself with the cutoff to TSMC and other chips and all but complete embargo on their 5G.
So many other...
Government officials are a work of art with their amazing capabilities to deduce the obvious. Amazing they focus on leading edge and miss the fact > 70% of all Silicon comes from China and their claimed rogue province. The west cries wolf while trading with the wolf but denying the wolf and...
Competition is good for all, especially for the Fabless. Samsung as much as they try are mostly irrelevant but everyone wants an alternative to TSMC for many reasons
What is the volume for an iPhoneSE? I can’t remember even there is a cheap iPhone or iPad that is out there that uses N7. Hard to believe Apple will run a money losing commodity product just to say made in America by Taiwanese, LOL.
The key were was unable and also can’t accept an alternative way to possibly get the job done. There were many classes on how the US work, how to communicate, etc etc. but you can’t get a thousand people to change over night and the managers the are the ones the hardest to cha fe with most...
They have multiple housing complex, just like they had Taisugar in Tainan and the policies and experience of the residents pissed everyone off. Seems like TSMC HR and executives could use some common sense, but their opinion is everyone should be happy with the opportunity to work at TSMC, LOL
Imagine you are taking delivery of a car or other dual sourced product and it can come from place A or place B. Would you accept that A is x% higher because it was higher cost center?
You as a buyer would say that is the supplier’s problem. This is especially true of said supplier had high...
Just a statement of air and sea embargo and a few stopped ships and shot down airline and world tech trad stops and stock markets plunge 40-50% or more