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  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    It looks like US hasn't really been doing much of an investment into subsidizing domestic fabs

    • https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-government-doles-out-paltry-dollar35-million-of-the-dollar52-billion-chips-act-warns-of-possible-delays-in-intel-and-tsmc-fab-buildouts
    • https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/us-govts-sluggish-chips-act-payouts-slam-the-breaks-on-samsungs-fab-company-delays-mass-production-at-texas-fab-to-await-further-chips-funding-report

    Meanwhile, China is already making domestic 7nm chips for AI https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20230717PD210/china-7nm-ai-chips.html

    and has a huge domestic market https://asiatimes.com/2023/12/china-to-meet-ai-market-demand-with-local-chips/

    My expectation is that China will rapidly catch up and will start outpacing western chip companies. It's also worth noting that as western chip market slumps, China will be able to poach a lot of the people. This has already been happening with TSMC and Samsung researchers and engineers moving to China because they got really attractive job offers.