TSMC To Build Second Japan Chip Factory, Raising Investment To $20 Billion (reuters.com) 44
Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC announced plans to build a second chip factory in Japan by the end of 2027, bringing total investment in its Japan venture to more than $20 billion. "Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co announced plans in 2021 to build a $7 billion chip plant in Kumamoto in southern Japan's Kyushu," notes Reuters. From the report: In a statement, TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, said its majority-owned unit Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing in Kumamoto would build a second fabrication plant, or fab, in response to rising customer demand. The second fab will begin construction by the end of this year and with both factories the site is expected to have total monthly capacity of more than 100,000 12-inch wafers to be used for automotive, industrial, consumer and high performance computing-related applications, TSMC said. The capacity plan may be further adjusted based upon customer demand, it added.
TSMC's expansion in Kyushu is central to the Japanese government's efforts to rebuild the country's position as a leading chip manufacturing centre and ensure the stable supply of chips amid trade tensions between the United States and China. The decision to build a second fab is a vote of confidence by TSMC in Japan where construction of the first fab has run smoothly and which, Reuters has reported, it sees as a source of diligent workers with a government that is easy to deal with.
TSMC's expansion in Kyushu is central to the Japanese government's efforts to rebuild the country's position as a leading chip manufacturing centre and ensure the stable supply of chips amid trade tensions between the United States and China. The decision to build a second fab is a vote of confidence by TSMC in Japan where construction of the first fab has run smoothly and which, Reuters has reported, it sees as a source of diligent workers with a government that is easy to deal with.
More protection from China (Score:3)
Re: More protection from China (Score:2)
It looks like... US.
We are obligated to defend Japan.
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China doesn't have a racial grudge against Japan. They have a grudge against Japan's government, because the current government was protected by the US during the Cold War, and didn't have to make reform, etc. like the Germans had to do post WW2. After all a large amount of Japanese politicians still think they did nothing wrong during WW2. A large portion of the government still go to a shrine that worships class A war criminals as war gods, and their textbooks often reflect the same. Shinzo Abe's gran
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The JSDF isn't exactly the US military, but it's large and well funded and equipped. A quarter million active duty personnel armed with large amounts of modern equipment is hardly "zero effective defense". The Japanese navy is quite substantial at this point too.
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But they don't have nuclear weapons. Sure they have a large nuclear industry, and a scientific satellite launcher which can place a satellite in LEO, GTO, SSO or even heliocentric orbit at short notice with a crew of only 8 after a long period of storage, but they don't have nuclear weapons.
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They don't need nuclear weapons, as Japan is under the US nuclear umbrella per the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan. It was done on the condition that Japan not develop their own nuclear weapons.
Even if Japan didn't fall under the US nuclear umbrella, China has a formal "no first use" policy for their nuclear weapons, and even if they *did* want to use their nuclear weapons in a first-use strike against a non-belligerent and non-nuclear nation, the political cost
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More importantly, Japan is an island and it's incredibly hard to invade an island as the germans found during WW2.
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The Germans never tried to invade an island.
You suck at history.
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They planned and prepared for it, and began the first stages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
They needed both air and naval superiority in order to begin landing ground troops in Britain. Since they never achieved this, they weren't able to continue with later stages of their plans.
They also successfully invaded small islands such as the channel islands.
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I do not think the article is correct.
To my knowledge Germany never planned to land in UK.
They actually wanted to avoid the war with them completely and get them on their side or neutral.
I guess the article is badly worded and is about a "planning game" and not about realistic plans.
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Dating America, is a bitch. (Score:3)
as a source of diligent workers with a government that is easy to deal with.
Translation: America has become that fucking hard to work with.
And exactly no one is surprised. Well, except for 81 million voters. They’re shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
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Or maybe the US Gov hasn't been supplying enough "lubrication":
https://www.datacenterknowledg... [datacenterknowledge.com]
More than a year after US President Joe Biden signed the Chips and Science Act into law â" which is supposed to provide tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to chipmakers expanding in the US â" the administration has yet to hand out any grants to major chipmakers like TSMC or Intel Corporation It has so far only provided some modest financial support to two minor industry players.
By contrast, TSMC publicized its plans for a more modest plant in Japan later than its Arizona project, but it has already received funds from the Japanese government. The facility is on track to start production in late 2024, according to the latest update the company provided.
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$600 billion+ in quarterly revenue. Largest contract chipmaker on the planet. Brags about Apple and Nvidia as being major customers. So tell me something; why in the hell would a company like that need to wait around for 3rd party funding, if they themselves see a business need to expand? Seems like quite the lame excuse.
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Maybe because the US government hasn't received any assurances that it won't just be used for a stock buyback? Plus, the Republicans stomped that bill to death, adding a ton of crap to make it unworkable.
What the US government needs to do is build and own some fabs by themselves. One set of fabs at 20 nanometer, where yield is focused on, and a set of fabs focused on nanometers and performance over everything else. Doesn't matter who builds it, but it would be nice if was Intel, and not TSMC, or even SMI
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USA: show me that you're really gonna build it!
TSMC: show me the money!
etc
Reuters: TSMC to build second Japan chip factory, raising investment to $20 bln
*MJ popcorn meme*
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TSMC earns $600 billion+ every quarter.
Being greedy and wanting someone else to foot the bill for your new facility is one thing, but it’s quite next-level greed fuckery to demand that when $20 billion amounts to a damn rounding error.
Either TSMC finds a need to expand operations, or they do not. Seems quite corrupt to hold Governments captive over promises of funding for those who can clearly afford to finance their own damn business.
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How do you set up a company in a foreign country?
Well: you can have as many billions as you want.
You can not just set up a company in Japan or Thailand, or for that matter: Switzerland or Lichtenstein.
THE COMPANY NEEDS TO BE OWNED 51% BY LOCALS The percentage might vary.
So you need local investors or a corrupt lawyer who stands as the 51% man and funnels the money into the company during the founding. Do you want a corrupt lawyer as 51% share holder in your "overseas" company?
So, if you want to build a fact
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THE COMPANY NEEDS TO BE OWNED 51% BY LOCALS The percentage might vary.
Yeah. Depending on country, the percentage may vary al the way down to ZERO.
So you need local investors or a corrupt lawyer who stands as the 51% man and funnels the money into the company during the founding. Do you want a corrupt lawyer as 51% share holder in your "overseas" company?
So, if you want to build a factory that costs 100 billion, it makes sense to have an "Incorporation" behind it in the 40 to 50 billion range. And if the law is similar as in Thailand: you need 20 to 25 billion local investment/investors/share holders.
None of this dismisses the fact that even 100 billion is considered chump change to them. Hell, with their influence and money, you can probably buy or negotiate your way out of that 51% excuse. It’s certainly a rather easy way to welcome a TSMC expansion into your country if you wanted it, while dismissing the greedy corrupt competition.
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Hell, with their influence and money, you can probably buy or negotiate your way out of that 51% excuse. No. You can't. Hoe the fuck would that work in a state of law????
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Re:Dating America, is a bitch. (Score:4, Informative)
Yeah, that statistic does comes off as totally made up...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch... [snopes.com]
https://www.politifact.com/fac... [politifact.com]
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The article specifically focuses on homicides. That is not the end-all encompassing single crime that defines a country as dangerous or not.
And what absolutely cannot be denied, is America’s “gun” statistics always being warped, with zero justified reason. When suicide amounts to 60 - 70% of all gun deaths in America, we don’t have a gun problem. We clearly have a mental health problem everyone wants to deny by blaming guns. It’s an argument as moronic as wanting to blame an
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There is nothing factually wrong that America has the most mass shootings and the most gun death on the planet.
Does not even need to be corrected "by capita"
How many got killed yesterday in US of Awesomeness? Statistically, 5 to 10. No idea, did not look news.
And how many in Europe? ZERO
How many in Japan? ZERO
How many in Thailand? ZERO.
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How many got killed yesterday in US of Awesomeness? Statistically, 5 to 10. No idea, did not look news.
And how many in Europe? ZERO
How many in Japan? ZERO
How many in Thailand? ZERO.
6,700 deaths by firearms in the EU each year, that's over 18 per day. This number is composed of 5,000 suicides (75%), 1,000 homicides (15%) and 700 unspecified deaths or accidents.
https://vlaamsvredesinstituut.... [vlaamsvredesinstituut.eu]
Population: USA 332m . EU 440m.
Guns in circulation: USA has 857m guns vs EU 80m guns.
It is important to remember; USA reports murders differently. If you shot someone in self defense, get charged, dropped or not guilty verdict USA still leaves it as a murder/homicide count. Other nations do n
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Killed buy a gun is counted as: killed by a gun.
EU does not have 18vgun kills a day. No idea where you get this from. Per year perhaps.
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You know it’s quite sad and pathetic when a liberal writer has to abuse the “rate” of decline in an attempt to try and falsely claim that our worst Democrat-controlled “gun free” cities in America are better.
Take a good hard look at Chicago homicide statistics every weekend. That “rate” of decline is going to have to crash in order to be able to stop writing articles forced to slice and dice statistics to try and prove how “good” Blue states are doing.
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I knew Slashdot was old, but I didn't realize it was so old that people took troll Facebook memes at face value.
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I can't decide whether you're dishonest or just really stupid. Have you ever heard the term, "per capita"? A city with a population of 3 million and 20 murders per year is not more dangerous to live in than a city with a population of 300,000 and 15 murders per year. The deadliest US cities are located mostly in Red States, and have populations that skew conservative.
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-cities/6/ [cbsnews.com]
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Put the propaganda crack pipe down for a sec. You have to realize that the US is being hit hard by the most sophisticated, brutal, multi-pronged psy-ops operations in the history of recorded civilization. Every shitpot nation that loves planting a boot in a journalist or dissident's face is sending billions of funding for psy-ops operations, first popping up on Telegram and Tik-Tok, then Twitter, and by then, you get people acting as BS amplifiers doing the equivalent of blending up cow patties and sprayi
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Russia is going to turn China into a vassal state? Give me some of whatever it is you were smoking to come up with that gem.
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tl;dr, the US isn't doing too bad. Yes, it is the target of the most brutal and prolific propaganda in world history, but realistically, things are going more stable than most of the world. There is a reason why many, many Chinese immigrants are pounding to get in via the Texas border.
Sorry, but after you just got done detailing how many other countries are mere meals away from being overthrown or collapsing, the whole by comparison political argument sounds quite lame, and results in people not believing or trusting the people spewing that nonsense (Reality tends to be quite the clarifier.)
Just because America might be a bit less fucked that the quite fucked areas of the world, doesn’t mean it’s doing good. It just means we’ve moved the goalposts to enable shitty lead
Re: Dating America, is a bitch. (Score:3)
"perhaps longer if Russia decides to turn the country into a vassal state."
You have that exactly backwards.
Russia has gone to China for supply. They literally cannot function without them.
On the other hand, with Russia spending troops rapidly in Ukraine there has never been a better time for China to invade Russia... Just don't do it in the winter.
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You definitely do it in the winter.
All other times of the year, the land is unpassable. Perhaps with a short window during harvest season ... if there is a harvest.
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Just be nice to her and she won't use the nuclear weapons (this is life advice dudes)
japan unions (Score:2)
Are Japanese unions going to block construction, like US unions did?
yokoso (Score:1)