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posted by martyb on Thursday December 09 2021, @11:24AM   Printer-friendly

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.


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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by khallow on Thursday December 09 2021, @01:34PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 09 2021, @01:34PM (#1203285) Journal

    Look, I get that they're firing rockets at Israelis, but they're pretty much David to Israel's Goliath.

    You just acknowledged the reason that Hamas waived that fair fight. Should murderers get a fair fight against the police? Should the police send one person at a time until the criminal surrenders peacefully?

    Israel kills hundreds of civilians, women and children, for each individual Israeli death, statistically.

    Hamas knows how to stop that. It's not launching rockets at random places in Israel.

    We can't go badmouthing our own genocidal maniacs.

    Who would that be?

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @02:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @02:14PM (#1203302)

    um the israeli govt.

    trouble is USA learnt its imperial coloniaism directly from mother europe, and nothing is new under the sun.

    peace will not come from discovery of who threw the first stone, or by encouraging lesseer powers to go at it, rather by being the first to lay down the stone.

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Friday December 10 2021, @08:34AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 10 2021, @08:34AM (#1203534) Journal
      In other words, empty accusations of genocide and a but European imperialism argument. Neither has any place in this thread, because they have nothing to with Israel or Hamas's behavior described above.

      peace will not come from discovery of who threw the first stone, or by encouraging lesseer powers to go at it, rather by being the first to lay down the stone.

      But I think insight will come to you from such a discovery.