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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: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Thursday December 09 2021, @03:54PM (8 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 09 2021, @03:54PM (#1203328) Journal

    We can't go badmouthing our own genocidal maniacs.

    Opinion: if Mexico were to frequently fire rockets at US civilians, and keep doing so, repeatedly, even after many retaliatory strikes, I strongly suspect we would react far more strongly than Israel has. IMO, Israel has been very restrained in its reaction.

    It is your right if you happen to disagree.

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    If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @04:35PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @04:35PM (#1203344)

    If the US invaded Mexican lands and stole them from me in living memory, I'd be firing rockets too. What the hell do you people not understand about theft?

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @05:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @05:26PM (#1203367)

      If the US invaded Mexican lands

      The Israeli settlers are undocumented migrants! You have just revealed your own antisemitism and racism by the mere notion of suggesting that they are invaders.

      and stole them from me in living memory, I'd be firing rockets too

      The Palestinians want to murder people over property. Wow, how bloodthirsty of you to place more value over property than the lives of other people.

      What the hell do you people not understand about theft?

      I have it on good authority that whenever people try to steal your property, the proper response is to let them have it. All you need to do is use your theft insurance afterward.

      Why is it so hard for the Palestinians to understand these simple concepts?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 11 2021, @08:55AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 11 2021, @08:55AM (#1203855)

      I'd be firing rockets too

      So what you're saying is that you, too, would transport a deadly weapon across nation state lines.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @04:38PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @04:38PM (#1203345)

    Israel was imposed on the defacto British colony of Palestine as an ethnostate based on one race and religion. There was resistance to that. Then Israel fought a war as a result and occupied conquered lands. The people living on those lands were told, "finders keepers". What you see now is a war that turned into guerrilla warfare. It never ended.

    Now, would I defend myself against attacks if I were Israel? Of course. But does Israel keep inciting Palestinians? Yes.

    It's not really my war, so I don't get worked up about it. These things only end when both sides are well enough off that war makes no sense, it destroys what they have, but that won't happen here. Palestine is a dumpster fire with no hope of being better off. They are occupied and stuffed into a closet whose ingress and egress the Israelis control.

    They other way wars end is if you kill off most of your opponents. So far, that approach has not been taken in the conflict.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday December 09 2021, @05:05PM (3 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 09 2021, @05:05PM (#1203359) Journal

      There are Palestinians who live and work peacefully in Israel.

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      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @05:27PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @05:27PM (#1203368)

        As second class citizens, serfs in lands that they have just as much claim to as any Israeli Jew.

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by jelizondo on Thursday December 09 2021, @05:34PM

        by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 09 2021, @05:34PM (#1203370) Journal

        Also there were many black Africans living and working peacefully in every British colony in the Americas, but I would not want that sort of life and you wouldn't either, so what’s your point?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @09:30PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @09:30PM (#1203441)

        Yup! They are called collaborators.