Samsung Foundry thinks it can ‘surpass’ TSMC in five years – Computer – News
It is usually not that troublesome as a result of the expansion for TSMC has stopped in the meanwhile. Not as a result of there isn’t a market development, however as a result of there’s merely not sufficient cooling water and electrical energy obtainable in Taiwan. TSMC now makes use of 8% of its energy technology as well as they use 75 billion m3 of potable water and roughly 105 billion m3 of extremely pure water per yr.
In the event that they use extra, Taiwan will crumble as a result of there isn’t a longer sufficient ingesting water and/or electrical energy obtainable for the remainder.
ASML claims that its machines are environment friendly as a result of it’s a very technical story, however the actuality is that the remainder of the warmth is just dumped as a result of no person is aware of what to do with it. The carbon footprint could be very excessive, however nobody is aware of precisely how excessive. Truly quite one thing that isn’t checked out, as a result of the chips which can be produced are badly wanted, particularly badly wanted to make extra environment friendly computer systems and machines. The speculation is that each erase one another, so under the road every part is 0.
TSMC after all noticed this coming and has been investing closely in processes since 2015 to make their factories extra environment friendly, and we have achieved some nevertheless it’s all a drop within the bucket.
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Tasks to start out up new factories in different elements of the world come to nothing, America and Europe are very eager, however not with a international companion. Different elements of the world merely don’t have the infrastructure, suppliers have appropriate personnel, which implies that it’s going to take a really very long time to arrange new factories with the related infrastructure. The one actually quick possibility is to increase to China, however that isn’t allowed.
It’s, after all, additionally a paradox. With the present local weather targets, would you like such factories in your nation in any respect? However to realize the present local weather targets you want the extra environment friendly chips they produce. So nicely, inform me?
I’ve definitely not talked about the emission of hazardous gases (used within the etching course of) and the usage of dangerous supplies and liquids. These factories have a really soiled little secret that she would quite not take into consideration.
TSMC claims to seize ALL escaping gases utilizing air scrubbers and to forestall contamination by way of different supplies and fluids by way of a strict monitoring system. It’s after all a query mark how watertight and environment friendly these techniques are. In response to leaked figures from Intel, about 60% of all waste water can also be closely polluted, TSMC is not going to be removed from that.
[Reactie gewijzigd door TechSupreme op 9 mei 2023 01:49]
