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TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have some thoughts on this I'll post as a comment. But basically the predictions of their re-shoring being a total bust were nonsense. It doesn't matter at the end of the day if their efficiency is only 80% of that of their fabs on the island, if it's enough to be part of what supplies the entire west with all they need for laptops and smartphones and gaming consoles then it's enough to no longer need that occupied part of China or care what their actions taken against China result in as far as consequences.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I don't really have a good reason to be skpetical

"Company reports that things will go incredibly well" is very skepticism-worthy