Beijing, Jul 19 (Prensa Latina) China reiterated today its warnings to the United States about the approval of strong measures if the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, finally makes a postponed visit to Taiwan.
The US has been strongly hinting that they want to move chip manufacturing to the US.
That's not how shit works. The US doesn't have the technology to do cutting edge chip manufacturing anymore. Without TSMC they're probably on par with China, doing 14nm stuff. And that's while "losing" money.
The process "sizes" are 100% marketing. They don't correspond to any real sizes, they're just using it as a proxy for which generation of chips/processes they're using. Intel's transistors are of similar size to AMD's, even though AMD claims theirs are smaller. I'm not sure why Intel insists on advertising larger sizes still, but it's probably their slavish obsession with "Moore's Law," which they also invented as a marketing device.
Some of the market is still using comically large processes though. I read that TSMC is urging a lot of automotive industry clients to update from their ancient processes (I think ~350nm) because economies of scale are making them really uneconomical to keep in production alongside cutting edge techniques. Maybe the US sees value in extorting that stubborn part of the market when TSMC inevitably stops catering to them.
That's not how shit works. The US doesn't have the technology to do cutting edge chip manufacturing anymore. Without TSMC they're probably on par with China, doing 14nm stuff. And that's while "losing" money.
The process "sizes" are 100% marketing. They don't correspond to any real sizes, they're just using it as a proxy for which generation of chips/processes they're using. Intel's transistors are of similar size to AMD's, even though AMD claims theirs are smaller. I'm not sure why Intel insists on advertising larger sizes still, but it's probably their slavish obsession with "Moore's Law," which they also invented as a marketing device.
Some of the market is still using comically large processes though. I read that TSMC is urging a lot of automotive industry clients to update from their ancient processes (I think ~350nm) because economies of scale are making them really uneconomical to keep in production alongside cutting edge techniques. Maybe the US sees value in extorting that stubborn part of the market when TSMC inevitably stops catering to them.