Social media commentary highlights structural European chip weakness
2 Sep 22 10:00 PM · 1d ago · 4 comments · 1 source · development 2 of 2
Reddit commenters diagnosed the no-sales figure as symptomatic of Europe's failure to build a domestic chip manufacturing base. Discussion centered on regulatory priorities, workforce constraints, and reliance on US and Chinese capacity.
“A fab in belgium managed to go bankrupt during the highest demand for chips in history lol.”
JanSmidDeZevende, Reddit commenter · reddit ↗ASML Dutch chipmaking equipment manufacturer
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You are correct that there is a significant worker shortage currently. Will that change? I don't know. What I do know is the university in the Arizona metro in which the TSMC campus is located is literally the largest engineering university in the country and the industry on this scale is still new. You can't expect a large workforce to appear out…
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China already has a prototype EUV machine - https://youtu.be/CHSK_C6_vgc?si=2OL9GB1cso15xH-O I heard they're also investigating other completely different approaches, such as Steady State Microbunching (SSMB) -
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Think in reverse. Buying a machine worth of 250M, if not more, in Europa is a high commercial risk. But, after that activity risk of being approached as if a criminal will be not fun. Bureaucracy has far more consequences.
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imagine creating and posting with a 4 karma account just to answer twice, you do know extensions show when the same guy post in different accounts right? at least use a account with more karma and a VPN
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They can't find enough well educated and competent people in the US to staff the fabs lol. And no migrant wants to move to the US during these times.
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The US would rather Europe get its shit together rather than have a useless slog in the AI race against China.
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And the inconvenient truth is that it's mostly because US facilitates while the EU regulates to death
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The only national security reason is related to China because they are the most prolific IP thieves.
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A fab in belgium managed to go bankrupt during the highest demand for chips in history lol.
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