• federal reverse@feddit.orgM
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    4 months ago

    Chip plants are another matter yet again. They usually work with silicon wafers into which they a chip surface.

    I don’t know where Intel get their materials from either. The silicon processing industry is largely Chinese again—I think Western and Japanese countries do have the appropriate factories and technology too though.

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      4 months ago

      I just read, that TSMC also plans on creating a processing plant in Germany(near Dresden) so in the near future we might see chips made entirely in Europe.