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minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoMultiple sources of production. We learned during concentrating all of your production in one small country wasn’t a good idea. Plus having multiple sources has always been suggested in case anything goes wrong with one company you can still have some production.
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoSure but there are other countries that also have cheaper manufacturing rates.
minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThose countries probably didn’t pay 5.5 billion dollars for TSMC to build a new facility in their country.
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoFUCK E: $6.6B, according to NYT
minus-squareABCDE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoAnd are susceptible to interference. Samsung is also building huge manufacturing infrastructure in the US.
minus-square0x0@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoSo now it can be subject to US interference. Geopolitics folks.
Multiple sources of production.
We learned during concentrating all of your production in one small country wasn’t a good idea. Plus having multiple sources has always been suggested in case anything goes wrong with one company you can still have some production.
Sure but there are other countries that also have cheaper manufacturing rates.
Those countries probably didn’t pay 5.5 billion dollars for TSMC to build a new facility in their country.
FUCK
E: $6.6B, according to NYT
And are susceptible to interference. Samsung is also building huge manufacturing infrastructure in the US.
So now it can be subject to US interference. Geopolitics folks.