Although a lot of the tooling for manufacturing is made In Germany and the Netherlands. Particularly the lithography machines. A lot of important of the chemicals come from Japan. Japan also has a history of manufacturing chips, although they haven’t been on the leading edge node for a while.
Fine, advanced chip manufacturing.
Germany’s best plants can produce literally nowhere near the 4nm chips that the likes of TSMC can. And shrinking in size is both exponentially harder and more valuable for an information processing chip at anywhere near that scale.
Computer chip manufacturing.
Taiwan, South Korea, and China are literally the only countries with any experience in production.
Although a lot of the tooling for manufacturing is made In Germany and the Netherlands. Particularly the lithography machines. A lot of important of the chemicals come from Japan. Japan also has a history of manufacturing chips, although they haven’t been on the leading edge node for a while.
Not true at all. Chips were made in Europe before production was outsourced. Not to mention Europe’s darling: AMSL.
Yeah, I mean, Germany alone has GlobalFoundries, Infineon and Bosch (among others), but sure…
Fine, advanced chip manufacturing. Germany’s best plants can produce literally nowhere near the 4nm chips that the likes of TSMC can. And shrinking in size is both exponentially harder and more valuable for an information processing chip at anywhere near that scale.