SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
TSMC Founder: Pat Gelsinger Too Old to Make Intel Great Again - TSMC and Intel exchange rants.
After less than a year into his tenure as Intel's chief executive, Pat Gelsinger has set up the company's process technology roadmap that spans through 2025 and introduced the company's IDM 2.0 foundry strategy. But the ambitious CEO may not have enough time to bring Intel back to its glory days, said Morris Chang, the founder and a former CEO of TSMC, reports UDN.
Pat Gelsinger is 60, and there is a rule that Intel's executives must retire at the age of 65. As a result, Gelsinger may not have enough time to put Intel back in a manufacturing technology leadership position, Chang noted while delivering his lecture 'Cherish Taiwan's Advantages in Semiconductor Wafer Manufacturing.'
[...] TSMC is not particularly happy with Gelsinger. Last week, he said that the reliance on Taiwan as the global hub for semiconductor manufacturing was a significant risk since China had never given up plans to capture the country.
"Taiwan is not a stable place," said Gelsinger at Fortune Brainstorm Tech, reports Nikkei. "Beijing sent 27 warplanes to Taiwan's air defense identification zone this week. Does that make you feel more comfortable or less?"
He also re-emphasized his view that foreign semiconductor companies should not receive subsidies from the U.S. government to build new fabs under the $52-billion CHIPS act. Gelsinger called on the U.S. government to provide incentives only for American chipmakers. He argued that semiconductor companies from China, Taiwan and South Korea received major aid from their respective governments, which made it harder for American companies like Intel to compete.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday December 09 2021, @01:26PM (7 children)
Who is "we"? And what will "we" need to let China have after that? Appeasement has a terrible track record.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @01:38PM (6 children)
"We" [maritime-executive.com] need to get out of the conflict over Taiwan.
And this has nothing to do with appeasement. Fuck that. This is strategic. We need to stop dumping good money after bad. That amount of money can get us a TSMC equivalent at home, more defensibly.
TSMC is the primary reason we even give half a shit about Taiwan anymore, and that's becoming increasingly expensive. The opportunity costs for it alone could be better spent on local industry.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 09 2021, @02:13PM (3 children)
You're right, but what about the human factor? Americans are already known to abandon allies when it is convenient to do so.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @05:48PM (2 children)
Everyone abandons allies when it's convenient. That's called "politics."
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 09 2021, @07:15PM (1 child)
That's better called "dishonorable".
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @07:42PM
They're in our prayers to Jewsus!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday December 09 2021, @06:47PM
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday December 09 2021, @06:51PM
It could, but it won't. I assume you haven't heard about the US's abysmal failure rate with that sort of infrastructure investment. And of course, why go through that exercise when we already have a TSMC?