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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) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @04:35PM (2 children)
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
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.
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.
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
So what you're saying is that you, too, would transport a deadly weapon across nation state lines.