Samsung needs chip buyers for it to start running its Texas chip fab.

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago

So glad they got huge tax breaks for this phantom factory.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I hear there is a chip shortage in Russia

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Maybe they should pay for Netlist tech

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    [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm incredulous that they only just realized it was a waste of money. Something changed. Either they only built it to get U.S. subsidies, or somerhing the current administration did killed demand. Which is it? I suspect it's the second option.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Buyers know tsmc is reliable and already up and running. Making a large order of needed chips out of a factory that is incomplete, doesn't have the required staff, may have issues finding the staff, and has already had to attempt retrofitting in an entirely new processing and equipment line for 2nm nodes while Samsung has been having issues at their other plants with qc, while the plant has already had delays in opening seems like a very risky move. I wouldn't want to order anything through them I needed before the plant was up and running, and shown to actually produce good chips.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe it's all the flooding.

    Maybe it's the fascism.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Nobody wants to chip!

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