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antonius123

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I don't believe TSMC will finish building the 5nm Fab in the US, jezzzz $12B and easily will go up to $20B and the cost of product 5x than the one produce in Taiwan

Who will buy the chips produce there?, definitely not China .. who else?


Again, it is about demand & supply. As long as the demand exceed the supply somebody will buy the chips produced there; they will be the late comers. AMD, Apple & Qualcomm could be among them.
 

jfcarli

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I think SMIC is testing the waters.
First by supplying Huawei with 28nm Chips.
Then by Trial producing N+1 & N+2 folowed by a actual production.
But SMIC also realises that China now has more cards to play with the advent of the SMEE 28nm DUVL.
Basically sending a message to the US that if you dont allow production of 7nm and 14nm, then the switch to local equipment will happen faster and ASML etc will lose big.
But i think the Biden Admin has finally realised that all these Trump style Sanctions are Low IQ tactics and is really counterproductive.
So the Biden Admin may actually do nothing to stop SMIC.
Also Americans are quite happy that they have their own FABs under construction courtesy of TSMC with associated technology transfer and feel less threatened with Chinese advances in IC.
Even if SMIC cannot supply directly to Huawei, I understand Huawei is doing some small production of chips on its own. There is nothing to stop SMIC from creating a production line inside Huawei and declare it has nothing to do with it.

Problem solved.
 

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TSMC Price Hikes Confirmed by Crypto Chip Giant​

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Bitmain, a leading developer of application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) for cryptocurrency mining and the maker of Antminer machines, has confirmed that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) had notified its customers about planned price increases for chip production.

"On the morning of [August] 25, TSMC notified all customers that all semiconductor processes will increase their prices by 20% from now on," a
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dfrtyhgj

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Even if SMIC cannot supply directly to Huawei, I understand Huawei is doing some small production of chips on its own. There is nothing to stop SMIC from creating a production line inside Huawei and declare it has nothing to do with it.

Problem solved.
The Whole of Nation approach to semiconductors means unless the West stops trading with China, China is unstoppable.
 
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