As China’s threats to Taiwan escalate, the global economy is increasingly at risk of a catastrophic disruption to the supply of microchips -- which are responsible for shaping our modern world.
In response, the U.S. is racing to up its manufacturing capacity, pouring billions of dollars into the domestic #microchip industry.
@stux the US, having moved the majority of manufacturing out of country, won't be able to catch up likely for another 10 years. Outsourcing is coming back to bite us in a huge way.
Microchip giant TSMC will open its first ever European plant.
The complex will be based in the German city of Dresden and is expected to be a project worth more than €10 billion that will strengthen the continent's position in the strategic industrial sector.
TSMC will own 70% of the project and will work with three European partners, the Dutch company NXP and the German Infineon and Bosch, each with a 10% stake.
#RetroBSD is a port of 2.11 #BSD#Unix intended for embedded systems with fixed memory mapping. The current target is #Microchip#PIC32#microcontroller with 128 kbytes of RAM and 512 kbytes of Flash. PIC32 processor has #MIPS M4K architecture, executable data memory and flexible RAM partitioning between user and kernel modes.
Another UK #microchip firm considers launching in US. Pragmatic Semiconductor says 'We don’t have biggest markets. We don’t have an attractive environment 4 scaling manufacturing. We don’t have a strong skills base'. UK must #RejoinEU 4 scale. https://tinyurl.com/2p8wrtdf#ToryLiars