CHIPS Act success: American based TSMC plant surpasses Taiwanese location in yield.

Fascinating. Lots of chatter about why America sucks at everything.

Zero discussion on American successes.

Awesome news, thanks for sharing.

All they did was oat for the cleanup costs. That's nice of the Chips Act but a no brainer.

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The chips act gurantees a 15% or Cost+ profit margin like the DoD contractors gets. It's politics and racism driven.

Trump wants to kill the deal. why?

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Trump, Vance send mixed messages on CHIPS Act that has fueled Arizona semiconductor boom

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The Republican presidential ticket is taking square aim at one of Democratic President Joe Biden’s signature achievements, a federal program that has allocated billions of dollars to boost semiconductor manufacturing projects...

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Eh. Disingenuous bait, but I’ll bite. Obviously good bipartisan support, even though both sides should have worked together to come up with a better bill.

And miscreants on both sides will serve the American people poorly if it means having a campaign issue to serve themselves better.

But of course, Trump is the most self-serving of all of them (among the more powerful. I’m not going point-by-point on lesser grifters).

It's illegal for the US gov't to subsidize a commercial chip plant. Called dumping.

It's not his idea. But he may have a concept of an idea.

No when we do it, it’s good. Next question

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Wooo-hooo!

The dumbest Act ever.

It takes 9 levels of tech to make a commercial semiconductor factory. 1 is dominated by the Dutch. 7 are dominated by Japan. 1 is split between Japan and the USA.

It had no provision to guarantee admission and a scholarship to any public 4 yr college in the US to a STEM student with a B average in STEM classes at a 2 yr junior college.

That would mean the USA would in due course have a million scientists and engineers that could design and make the machines that are inside a semiconductor factory.

As it stands nothing has changed for the future.

It's Cali thing, you know.

So what. It's not L.A.

in reality STEM majors have to get an A on all under grad STEM classes or else they will fail ulpper division classes. Also an A in all upper division STEM classes to make it thru masters. it's that hard.

The machines in the plant are all from overseas suppliers. They tale 80% of the profiits and send it back to their countries.

Only California has implemented a long term plan. JC students with C avg are automatic admits to a Cal St. With a B avg students are auto admits to a Univ of Cal. You may not get the campus you want but they'll find a spot for you guaranteed. That means in time the machines in the chip plants will be American made in the future.

Here I was thinking TSMC defeated the Murican companies so that's why you now need them to build fabs in the US.

TSMC, Samsung Semi, etc. are all run by UC Berkeley Professors.

Too bad this plant is 2-3 generations behind. They wiill produce TSMCs N4P node (enhance N5 node). Currently in Taiwan they're at N3E (2nd gen N3) and are ramping up N2 to be mass produced later this year.

The fact that the newest nodes remain Taiwan exclusive is Taiwan's life insurance. This will not change.