• @[email protected]
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    2210 days ago

    Meanwhile EU: “I sleep”

    Yeah cool, let’s keep depending on other countries for stuff our whole economies are based on.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 days ago

      Aren’t the very photolithography machines that all the chip manufacturers use to make their chips all made by like one EU company or something?

    • @[email protected]
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      3410 days ago

      I mean, EU did pass the ECA, “problem” with the EU is you are not as free to abuse your workforce as in Asia and in the USA, so the cost of labor is higher.

      • @[email protected]
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        910 days ago

        You’re not abusing extremely high skill workers who can easily get a new job elsewhere. Not if you want high profit margins.

          • AwesomeLowlander
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            39 days ago

            In the context of Asian work environments, it’s par for the course and much higher paid than the alternatives. Since the workers don’t consider it abuse, it gets accepted.

  • @[email protected]
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    1810 days ago

    Aren’t there still massive issues with the Colorado River running dry? Hopefully they’re not too dependant on that water source for their chips

    • @[email protected]
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      169 days ago

      Although the amount of water is shrinking. The main issue for the Colorado is abuse from agriculture. Something like 80% is being used for farming in the middle of the fucking desert. And even worse their growing shit like avocados and almonds that need a shit ton of water.

  • @[email protected]
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    119 days ago

    I thought I read somewhere they are a year behind on ramping up actual real world production cuz of course shocker americans don’t want to work 65 hours a week being abused the entire time. Cannot staff it as of this spring as far as I know. Drive past it all the time and never fails to strike me as a prime bomb target for the next enemy.

    • Dr. Bluefall
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      18 days ago

      I feel like if anyone attempted to bomb an American TSMC plant, there would be far larger problems on the docket to come.

  • @0x0
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    -910 days ago

    Once it’s up to speed the CIA can start sabotaging the Taiwan facilities.