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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: 0, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 09 2021, @02:06PM (10 children)
I'll admit it for you. Feel better?
Now, let's do a little mind exercise. China and the US go to war, over whatever pretext. If it's allowed to become a war of attrition, one death for one death, China wins by default. That has been a well-known fact for as long as intelligent people have considered the possibility. So, our answer is, if there's a war, we kill hundreds of theirs for every one of our losses.
Now, look back to Israel. The day that Arabs gain an equal footing, killing one Israeli for every Arab lost, then the Arabs win by default. They just keep the pressure up, until Israel collapses. Put yourself in Israel's position, and tell us that you wouldn't kill hundreds for every one of your own losses.
Now that you've played the mind game, you need to add something to the equation. Maybe not every Moslem in the world is fanatical about killing Israelis and/or Jews, but, their Koran teaches that in some great final war, Jews will try to hide under rocks. And, the very rocks will cry out, telling Moslems that a Jew is hiding beneath it. Everyone seems to forget that there are religious aspects to all of Israeli dealings with Arabs, or with Moslems.
So, again, I say that when Arabs gain an equal footing, one death for one death, there will be boatloads of martyrs volunteering to kill an Israeli.
They either continue killing hundreds for every loss, or Israel vanishes from the face of the earth - again. I can live without an Israel, I suppose. But, I admire the fighting spirit that has kept Israel alive in the face of overwhelming force for 7 decades.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @02:10PM (9 children)
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 09 2021, @02:19PM (8 children)
You're obviously too stupid to understand the words you use. WTF is racist about observing that there are more Chinese than there are Americans? Or, observing that there are more Arabs and Moslems than there are Israelis? Expand your vocabulary, and in the process, try to get an education.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @03:48PM (2 children)
He called you a racist for supposing that you could live in a world without an Isreal, I think.
Which still makes him an idiot, since Isreal != Jew. Had you said you suppose you could live in a world without Jews, that would be a lot closer to being racist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @09:48PM (1 child)
Given its current usage the word "racist" has basically devolved into an insult to fling at anyone who dares to voice disagreement.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Friday December 10 2021, @03:43AM
And Runaway, who is actually old school un-educated white trash racist. Doesn't like to have it pointed out, however.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @05:04PM (4 children)
Your post was racist in its depiction of arabs and "moslems". Your post was mostly about that totally unrelated issue. The topic is Taiwan, not Israel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @06:00PM (2 children)
"Moslems". Clearly racist. We call them "Muslims" now, which is totally different.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @01:34AM (1 child)
Give white supremacists an inch and innocent people get murdered.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @02:52AM
Comrade Stalin would like a word with you ...
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 09 2021, @07:18PM
Would Mohammedan make you feel better? And, if you can't understand the comparison, don't cry to me.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.