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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: 2) by looorg on Thursday December 09 2021, @01:40PM (7 children)
Not sure it should be more or less worrying. More that it's worrying that a lot of chip design and manufacturing is located in such troubling places in general. Our current situation is shit more or less due to logistics and that people didn't work constantly due to the pandemic. I guess it will be irrelevant compared to either of these two places (Taiwan, Israel) gets dragged into another war. The only upstart here is that at least Israel tends to win their wars, Taiwan probably won't unless the USA and suitable allies in the area such as Japan etc step in. Which just takes it to a whole new scale of bad.
But if there is a war in the region then the chip shortage of today will seem like a teensyweensy little problem then. But considering the sabre rattling with China, Russia etc. It's surprising that western nations are so nonchalant about the whole thing. There is a real lack of planning and doing something about the chip and or production imbalance in general. There is planning but there is no talk of a replacement or relocation of production in sufficient capacity. Certainly so since it's not something that can just start up here tomorrow of things turn hot and the supply quickly dwindles.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 09 2021, @02:12PM (6 children)
I think our situation is shit because a lot of already wealthy people decided to become traitors to their country by exporting all the manufacturing tech possible, so they could become a little more wealthy. I'll point out Mitt Romney, but he is far from being unique. And, there are all those other traitors, like the Wal-Mart heirs who have forgotten all about 'Made in America', and invested in the production of counterfeit goods made in China.
We are where we are, because of greedy SOBs who don't care about their country.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @03:38PM
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
-- Thomas Jefferson
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday December 09 2021, @04:18PM
Profit, even above the good of one's own country.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday December 09 2021, @04:31PM (2 children)
It would help a lot to have some resources on how to quickly buy goods not/made in a given country. A special Amazon.com search, a special project of Amnesty International, some random blogger -- anything would be useful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @05:48PM
Not a perfect solution, but https://www.wecultivate.us/ [wecultivate.us] apparently have browser extensions which add the true country of origin to Amazon search results.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday December 10 2021, @03:09PM
Do not try to bend the spoon, because that is impossible. Instead, realize that Amazon already bent it for you. Made in China. *Results may vary*
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @03:46AM
BOHICA! Runsaway is thinking, again!