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    Samsung delays $44 billion Texas chip fab — sources say completion halted because ‘there are no customers’


    Samsung delays $44 billion Texas chip fab — sources say completion halted because ‘there are no customers’

    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/samsung-delays-usd44-billion-texas-chip-fab-sources-say-completion-halted-because-there-are-no-customers

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    1. rnilf on

      > The Taiwanese chip maker currently holds the number one spot in global contract chip manufacturing, with a market share of nearly 68%. On the other hand, Samsung comes in second place with 7.7%

      Fuck me, TSMC is a powerhouse.

    2. u0126 on

      More tariffs for Taiwan! Tariff TSMC! Tariff tomshardware! That’ll force domestic production!

    3. ZanzerFineSuits on

      This is why the government shouldn’t pick winners & losers with various subsidies. Make a better economic environment and let businesses figure out what’s best for their own markets*

      * before the dogpiling starts, I’m not advocating for full deregulation either. I’m referring to direct subsidies & tax breaks for certain industries above others, or rewarding one company but not another.

    4. _chip on

      There is little demand for 4nm chips. They’re switching to 2nm. Titles misleading.

    6. TBMachine on

      I live about 3 miles from this plant. It was expected to bring thousands of jobs and raise property values. Between this and Tesla crapping the bed right down the road, it really really sucks here. They literally began building thousands of houses and roads nearby for the Samsung workers and their families, and now there’s a ton of new homes, and home prices are tanking because no one wants to come to Texas, and I can’t escape. For a short period of time our house value went way up, now it’s floundered. Fun times.

    7. SlightlyOffWhiteFire on

      This is what everyone saw coming.

      I you want to build up a strategic reserve, so to speak, of infrastructure to make chips just in case TSMC gets taken over, I can see that.

      But having it run by a capitalist industry dependent on profit motives is not going to work for that purpose.

      Theres such a fundamental disconnect in how the world actually works and how American politics since Reagan has worked. Sometimes the government does just need to to buck up and say “im taking this enterprise over” when it makes no sense to leave it rotting in the hands of a handful of billionaires speculating on real estate.