FYI, about half of Nvidia cards are assembled in China. The PCB, cooling, capacitors and voltage regulators are made in China, regardless of assembly location.
Most of these components could easily be made elsewhere, albeit at a higher cost.
lol. Good luck trying to train American workers to build such microchips. It’s not gonna happen. They won’t work 24 hour a day.
The US produces a lot of chips, they just aren’t the consumer market leader. The US also prototypes the revolutionary new processes, i.e. 65nm-> 20nm -> …-> 5nm -> 3nm processes all started in the US. But once the process has been proofed, and it’s time for volume they send it to Israel or Taiwan to be mass produced because it’s cheaper and for no other reason.
I don’t know much about manufacturing chips, but if this is just an incremental step towards Taiwan not being a single point of failure and there will be sustained progress in this direction, then this seems like a worthwhile achievement. Obviously getting the supply chains in place and fully duplicating the manufacturing capabilities that exist in Taiwan would be quite a complex endeavor that won’t happen overnight (if ever), so incremental progress like this is about what I’d expect.
So, now they get shipped back and forth across the Pacific…twice? Wow. So much “winning”.
So just the easy part lmao
Driving up the cost
Raw Materials -> America: +Tariffs
Incomplete chips -> Taiwan: ++Tariffs
Complete chips -> America: +++TariffsSeems rather wasteful.
imagine how much easier it would be if the world weren’t flat
It would be so much easier if there world was inside out. Then we could just drop the pears to each country.
Oh fuck, Drop Pears now too?
I needed this laugh today, thank you.
This is of course drawing lines on a projected globe, rather than straight lines on a round globe. But the reality is not much better—Argentina is almost exactly on the other side of the planet from Thailand. 🫣 Thailand’s antipode is just off the coast of Peru, so very close to Argentina.
Really, really irresponsible use of resources. Especially if these pears are shipped by sea. Then it’s even worse.
For whatever reason, this method was deemed cheaper. Resources cost money, and you can count on business not blowing money for giggles. You never know what weird shit goes on behind the scenes in a trade you’re not familiar with.
Hard to imagine a case for this one though! I fear there may be government fuckery like tariffs involved.
Especially if these pears are shipped by sea. Then it’s even worse.
Shipping via sea is the cheapest and least greenhouse gas producing way to ship things. With the only exception being pipes, which are significantly better than ships on both fronts. However, we shouldn’t be shipping peaches via pipe. ;p
Shipping via sea is the cheapest and least greenhouse gas producing way to ship things.
AFAIK all ships still run on fuel. Esecially the huge ones.
While a lot of emmissions are “hidden” in the infrastructure, ships still have infrastructure: the ports and terminals weren’t always there like the sea. Less infrastructures than other modes to be sure, but certainly not “free”.
Ah yeah, I failed to consider that, but it’s at least an even longer route by sea. 😅
We absolutely should so I can put the end of that pipe in my mouth
You have died of dysentery.
Fucking rad
Also reminds me of this lmao
The fact that the result can apparently still manage to show up in a store cheaper than peaches grown and packed locally just goes to show how fucked up the economics in Argentina and Thailand are.
FYI, this is an AI specific chip. US manufacturing still has supply issues with low tech, cheap chips .
reason #89489734874 why amd is superior
