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TSMC and Trump announce $100 billion investment in the US, including three fabs (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Foxconn mostly abandons $10 billion Wisconsin project touted by Trump
Published Wed, Apr 21 2021 5:46 AM EDT | Updated Tue, Sep 13 2022 7:00 PM EDT

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/foxconn-mostly-abandons-10-billion-wisconsin-project-touted-by-trump.html

Huh, I wonder why this sounds so familiar.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconn_Valley_Science_and_Technology_Park

Went down the hole, part of it soon to become a Microsoft data center. Makes sense when you have access to a shit ton of fresh water.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just look up Foxconn in Wisconsin if you want a preview of what’s to come.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or TSMC 4nm fab in Arizona, a complete failure obviously.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Foxconn was very different than TSMC in AZ. I have problems with the fab but saying it is a failure is hopefully sarcasm. Fuck Trump though. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/tsmcs-arizona-fab-21-is-already-making-4nm-chips-yield-and-quality-reportedly-on-par-with-taiwan-fabs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was sarcasm and I’m terrified nobody noticed (otherwise they’d downvote me to hell for attributing anything positive to Trump).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ha, I gotcha. ✌️

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Much like he gave concessions with canada basically telling him what they were already agreeing to as if it were a new thing, is this repackaging something Biden did and trump wanting a fucking cookie for?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More or less. It's the CHIPS act

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Figured Trump was going to wait til closer to the midterms to start taking credit for that. Guess he's desperate enough to not wait for it to actually start paying out.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Common corporate tactic. Company pledges to invest billions in new this or that. Years later project is abandoned due to unforeseen delays.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Likely this, and those 100bln are a lot for the right people involved in the tremendous effort that will unfortunately fail, but you never know

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Fuck that guy and everyone that attaches to him.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Is this so he can give China his blessing to take Taiwan?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

So bankrupt and abandoned in a few years? Gotcha.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Assuming this actually leads to anything and we now have a functional US fab, wouldn't this be the dawn of the $5,000 iPhone SE?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

TSMC already has a functioning US fab

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I thought the government didn't have any money!