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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 2 months ago
If Intel goes down, are there any other players than TSMC and Samsung doing semiconductors? That could have even geopolitical impact given their neighboring countries, close proximity of all manufacturing in the world etc.

IMHO that is pretty worrying situation, more even so than possibility of Intel going down.

Like for instance consider this. A single nuke could destroy the whole in the world within minutes with that physical topology.
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wamserma@hachyderm.io

Markus Wamser

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@jarkko Globalfoundries and a few smaller ones that are still in the 16nm/22nm world, mainly doing Automotive and high power Chips.

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@wamserma OK that's a reasonable backup,
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@wamserma Still, if TSMC and Samsung facilities went down for some reason, it would be a game over for all consumer electronics. I would not actually mind computers getting slower and moving backwards to 16/22 nm if that ever happened :-)
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