@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 10 months agoApple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fabwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1378cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1378external-linkApple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fabwww.tomshardware.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 10 months agomessage-square57fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish48•10 months agoBecause the U.S. government gave them $6.6 billion to do it under the CHIPS Act: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-wins-66-bln-us-subsidy-arizona-chip-production-2024-04-08/ With TSMC, it’s insurance against China invading Taiwan but Intel (and probably everyone else) got a load of subsidies too. After the chip shortage during the pandemic and Russia invading Ukraine, chip production became a national security issue.
Because the U.S. government gave them $6.6 billion to do it under the CHIPS Act: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-wins-66-bln-us-subsidy-arizona-chip-production-2024-04-08/
With TSMC, it’s insurance against China invading Taiwan but Intel (and probably everyone else) got a load of subsidies too. After the chip shortage during the pandemic and Russia invading Ukraine, chip production became a national security issue.
Mystery solved, I suppose!