Because having some working transistors is approx 1% of the effort.
The EU should obviously set up an Initiative like Rapidus and their ignorance there will certainly cost the continent a lot.
Europe is the only place in the world where you could have a meaningful "made in Europe chip", basically everything in the Semiconductor value chain is already there, except for the manufacturing. China is trying to get there, the EU is just neglecting the opportunity that exists.
I hate to ask because, actually, it would be super great to have a little hope about new semiconductor manufacturing not having gotten impossible. Are they… for real?
vFunct•6mo ago
adrian_b•6mo ago
Intel has just said that unless a miracle will bring them serious external customers for their 14A CMOS process, they will stop developing it, which would leave the Intel 18A manufacturing process (to be used for Panther Lake later this year) as the last Intel manufacturing process.
In that case, there will be only 3 state-of-the-art semiconductor makers, TSMC, Samsung & Rapidus, with no American or European competitor.
bayindirh•6mo ago
...and almost everyone uses ASML's machines. Honestly interesting. Canon was going to build a lower cost machine competitive with ASMLs, I wonder how it's going.
...and I'm also wondering whether Nikon and Canon still make the lenses for these machines.
KK7NIL•6mo ago
Here's the actual quote:
> This Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Words such as "accelerate", "achieve", "aim", "ambitions", "anticipate", "believe", "committed", "continue", "could", "designed", "estimate", "expect", "forecast", "future", "goals", "grow", "guidance", "intend", "likely", "may", "might", "milestones", "next generation", "objective", "on track", "opportunity", "outlook", "pending", "plan", "position", "possible", "potential", "predict", "progress", "ramp", "roadmap", "seek", "should", "strive", "targets", "to be", "upcoming", "will", "would", and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, which may include statements regarding:
> ...
> potential pause or discontinuation of our pursuit of Intel 14A and other next generation leading-edge process technologies if we are unable to secure a significant external customer for Intel 14A;
I think it's pretty obvious that it's more of a statement to legally cover the company's behind from investor lawsuits than the current plan, and the fact this wasn't repeated anywhere else more prominent backs that up.
wtallis•6mo ago
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ahartmetz•6mo ago
Potentially using market dynamics to force a direction that not everyone in the company could otherwise be convinced to go along with. It does feel like Intel's equivalent to the infamous Nokia "Burning platform" memo.
ryao•6mo ago
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