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posted by martyb on Friday November 30 2018, @03:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the making-a-big-deal-out-of-small-things dept.

For more than 30 years, Intel Corp. has dominated chipmaking, producing the most important component in the bulk of the world’s computers. That run is now under threat from a company many Americans have never heard of.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. [TSMC] was created in 1987 to churn out chips for companies that lacked the money to build their own facilities. The approach was famously dismissed at the time by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. founder Jerry Sanders. "Real men have fabs,"[*] he quipped at a conference, using industry lingo for factories.

These days, ridicule has given way to envy as TSMC plants have risen to challenge Intel at the pinnacle of the $400 billion industry. AMD recently chose TSMC to make its most advanced processors, having spun off its own struggling factories years before.

[*] "fab" is shorthand for Semiconductor fabrication plant.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-28/intel-s-chipmaking-throne-is-challenged-by-a-taiwanese-upstart


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday November 30 2018, @04:19PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 30 2018, @04:19PM (#768330) Journal

    Ancient old Chinese proverb sayeth . . .

    Software controls the World
    Hardware controls the Software
    China controls the Hardware

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
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