Why are we so dependent on Taiwan for microchips? Why couldn’t these be manufactured elsewhere, in addition to Taiwan?
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To be clear, the Mikrochips could be produced somewhere else, but the process is not easy and involves alot of very expensive and very precise machines inside a Clean room.
Operating and build auch big clean rooms is the first expensive steps. Following buying and building up those big really expensive machines, talking about the sice of a double bed, two meters high, and not only one of those, but alot of different ones for different processes.
All those machines have to be fine tuned to make really precise structures that are needed, so you need qualified people to build the machines, maintain the machines and use the machines.
Then the whole procedure, depending on product, might take weeks or month to produce. So there is no quick way to check if a machine is working.
Working in a semiconductor fab, the fastest priority (hand delivery inside fab plus the notice “drop everything and do this now!”) still took about 3-4 weeks to be completed.
So that’s already alot of work done before you can even start mass producing.
And if you want to take jobs you need to show some quality or capacity first.
So getting to run a fab for Mikrochips is the really hard part here
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