EU countries and the region's parliament are about to approve a plan that will help the European semiconductor industry catch up with Asia and the US, Reuters reported. The implementation of the plan, known as the "Chip Act" by analogy with the same American law, will cost the EU 43 billion euros.

The European "Chip Law" was announced last year when EU countries decided to reduce their dependence on US and Asian semiconductor manufacturers. This was prompted by the pandemic-induced shortage of chips, which in 2020-2021. caused significant damage to a number of European enterprises, and primarily to automakers.

Present issues can be solved only with free (read - newly printer by goverment) money.

To quote wikipedia, "Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement."

Quantum Computers take blueprints of idea's and things and then make them using Quantum Physics like a 3D printer would make a piece of plastic.

Their applications are in Health, Technology and Manufacturing.

They are not as popular as a Laptop or iphone.

Quantum Computers also need budget money injected into

Alleged time travelers.

That’s really way out of topic but interesting to hear what you have to say about that.

Artificial Consciousness can only be achieved by quantic computing.

And you've all heard many times Moore's Law is slowing down. Moore's Law is dead. What does that mean? It's not that there's not going to be exciting new transistor technologies.

Actually, I can see exciting new transistor technology for the next -- as far as you can really plot these things out, is about six to eight years, and it's very, very clear to me the advances that we're going to make to keep improving the transistor technology, but they're more expensive. It used to be the old Moore's Law, right?

You could double the density in every 18 to 24 months, but you'd stay at that same cost band. Well, that's not the case anymore. So, we're going to have innovations in transistor technology. We're going to have more density. We're going to have lower power, but it's going to cost more. So, how you put solutions together has to change.

And we did see that coming, and that was part of the motivation of the Infinity architecture that we just spoke about because it allowed us to be very modular and how that we design each of the elements and that put us in a position to be able to leverage chiplets. Chiplets is really a way to just rethink about how the semiconductor industry is going forward.

There's a lot of innovation yet to go because it's going to be the new point of how solutions to put together. It used to be a motherboard and you put all these discrete elements in the motherboard. What will keep innovation going and we'll keep, I'll say, a Moore's Law equivalent, meaning that you continue to really double that capability every 18 to 24 months is the innovation around how the solution is put together.

It will be heterogeneous. It won't be homogeneous. So you're going to have to use accelerators, GPU acceleration, specialized function, adaptive compute like we acquired with Xilinx, which closed in February this year. So those elements are going to have to come together and then how you integrate it is you're going to see tremendous innovation on how those come together and it really will keep us on pace, and we actually have to because you can just look at the demands of computing, they haven't slowed down one iota. In fact, they're escalating rapidly with AI becoming more and more prevalent.

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hoping for a large bump in intel share price with the CHIPs act

The CEO of GlobalFoundries, the world's fourth-largest contract chipmaker, is fond of repeating that by the end of the decade, the semiconductor market will double to a trillion US dollars. He is also convinced that in order to overcome the shortage of components, a comparable amount must be invested in their production.

Topical considerations Tom Caulfield (Tom Caulfield), according to Seeking Alpha, this week shared with the audience of the TV channel CNBC. The global expansion of semiconductor production, according to the head of GlobalFoundries, will continue without regard to possible macroeconomic difficulties such as the “bottlenecks” currently observed in the supply chains of components. All problems will be solved sooner or later, according to Caulfield, and chip production will continue to grow.

By 2024, the company will increase its own production capacity by 60% compared to 2020 levels. Already, GlobalFoundries has orders for two years in advance; it is not afraid of a possible decrease in demand in certain market segments. Firstly, demand is now falling in the segment of PCs and budget smartphones, and it is weakly dependent on them. Second, any modest gaps in demand in one direction can be offset by others, since global demand still exceeds supply by 20%.

The European Union (EU) has published a set of provisions in the EU Chip Act, which is intended to be "Europe's blueprint for regaining world leadership in the semiconductor industry," according to PCGamer. Europe wants to join the semiconductor technology race and bring the results of its advanced research to production, as the IMEC research center is already engraving 1.4 nm wafers. By 2030, it is planned to invest 11 billion euros in the creation of a comprehensive platform for the industrial implementation of advanced technological processes through the joint efforts of the EU member states.

As I said before - people will pay now to greedy basters from their taxes

Not having managed to do this before the end of last year, members of the US Congress this week nevertheless voted for the adoption of a package of legislative measures to stimulate the development of the domestic semiconductor industry. The House of Representatives voted to pass the bill, which includes $52 billion in subsidies. About $39 billion will go directly to building new semiconductor manufacturing facilities.

Ripping has no limits lately.

Capitalism as case of shortages

Semiconductor shortage problems will persist until at least mid-2022, as industry players try to stock up to normal levels but do not invest in mature technology, research firm IDC said.

The company believes that one of the reasons for this situation is too little investment in non-advanced technological processes - they are necessary in the production of vital components for the automotive industry and other market segments. According to IDC, the market for semiconductor products is still in short supply of products that are produced on "obsolete" equipment. We are talking about technical processes of 40 nm or more - they are involved, for example, in automotive electronics, LCD controllers and power management.

Last year, up to 67% of semiconductor products were manufactured using such technologies, rather than advanced solutions at 16 nm or less. Products based on the most advanced technologies account for only 15% of wafer shipments, but they generate 44% of total revenue. In this regard, advanced productions receive more significant investments in comparison with mature solutions.

This guys aim for profit, not real needs.

The development of new technologies will require new personnel, and someone has to work at newly created enterprises. TSMC's engineering staff will increase by 8,000 this year, MediaTek is going to hire 2,000 engineers.

This is reported by the Japanese edition of the Nikkei Asian Review, citing informed sources. Last year, TSMC hired about 8,000 people, so this year's hiring plans will ensure that the pace of staff growth continues. Now TSMC has about 60,000 employees worldwide, although the bulk of the workforce is concentrated in Taiwan.

In the case of MediaTek, which develops mobile processors, the engineering staff is expected to increase by 2,000 this year. In the past, the company has hired about the same number, and in total, 19,300 people work for the benefit of MediaTek. In addition to staff in Taiwan, this developer will attract talent from within India. About 1,000 specialists in the field of research and development are already working here.

It will take at least six months for Advantest to deliver its high-end SoC testing equipment as shortage of key chip components needed to power the equipment has constrained the company's production, according to Alex Wu, chairman and president of Advantest.