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Economy
Samsung chip fab in Texas shut down by energy shortage...
2021-02-18
So, the Bidet* misministration wants more chips made in the US, but doesn't want the energy infrastructure - pipelines - that is needed to support what's already on-line.
Was that not a Donald Trump thing?
[Tom's Hardware] In a development that certainly isn't going to help the ongoing global chip shortage, according to a report from the Austin-American Statesman, Samsung has been ordered to completely shut down its fabs in Austin, Texas, due to power shortages in the state. The unprecedented move also impacts NXP Semiconductors and Infineon Semiconductors, and all of the impacted companies have complied with the order and ceased chip production operations.

Unplanned fab shutdowns can have long-lasting impacts; for instance, a thirty-minute power shutdown in 2018 at a Samsung fab destroyed 3% of the global supply of NAND. Additionally, as seen from an unplanned power loss at Samsung's Hwaseong plant last month, it can take several days after power restoration for a fab to resume full operations.
Posted by:M. Murcek

#2  So, the Bidet* misministration wants more chips made in the US, but doesn't want the energy infrastructure - pipelines - that is needed to support what's already on-line.

You mean that they can't just say what they want and it magically appears? Who knew!
Posted by: Tom   2021-02-18 12:02  

#1  Facebook openly uses the term Community Standards which are actually Communist Standards.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-02-18 09:59  

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