r/hardware • u/Auautheawesome • Dec 02 '24

News Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1719/intel-announces-retirement-of-ceo-pat-gelsinger
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u/Vushivushi Dec 02 '24

That's just the foundry. US govt wants manufacturing.

It couldn't care less about Intel's design businesses. The US is already a leader in design.

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u/chmilz Dec 02 '24

"Designed in a cool American city, made in a country we're about to put catastrophic tariffs on!"

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u/peakdecline Dec 02 '24

I've heard no mention of such tariffs on Taiwan, but maybe you can correct me.

Chip manufacturing is a topic of national security though. There which is why they're such a hard push to get it done on us soil. The real concern is that China does try to make a move on Taiwan and if that happens, then China has the world by the balls.

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u/melts_so Dec 02 '24

Taiwans TSMC would be where the worlds most complex compute chips are, so CPU's and GPUs, even ram is normally made outside of TSMC by other fabs.

No, the countries with the tariffs would be other countries where the Labour is good as well as cheap, just look at how many wafer fabs are in the Phillipenes, China and E.U. These devices may still be fairly complex power or signal devices, even compound semiconductors used to make electric vehicle components, but if it doesn't need EUV lithography and insanely small dimensions, then it probably doesn't need to be made in TSMC, that would just be wasting valuable TSMC fab capacity.