Carzy Zarx’s PC Gaming Emporium - Catch Up on All the Latest PC Gaming Related News

[Bofferbrauer2]

JEMC said:

AsGryffynn said:

GlobalFoundries, do your thing! 

They already are:

CEO of largest U.S. chip foundry explains why semiconductor shortage could last through 2022
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/02/globalfoundries-ceo-on-semiconductor-shortage-and-ipo.html
GlobalFoundries, the third-largest foundry, is planning to invest $1.4 billion in its chip factories this year, and will likely double that investment next year, CEO Tom Caulfield told CNBC in an interview.

Caufield said the company’s manufacturing capacity is completely booked and that industrywide semiconductor supply could lag behind demand until 2022 or later.

“Right now all our fabs are not only more than 100% utilized, we are adding capacity as fast as we can,” Caulfield said.

Just to get an idea how many chips must get produced right now, here's a little look at all the fabs in the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants

There are currently 529 fabs producing chips. Of course, none could do all the possible chips [for instance, while most fabs get upgraded to smaller processes, some fabs are still producing chips in sizes which are totally outdated by computer standards; those are used in stuff like electronics (as in, grid control), calculators (which don't exactly need the power of modern chips), IoT (which is also partly why their security is generally miserable apart from shoddy programming) and most importantly, microcontrollers in pretty much every hardware], but most that still means that tens of thousands of wafers must get produced every day in 14nm and lower for things like PCs, Smartphones, Servers or other AI hardware. And despite this meaning a 7-digit number of chips per day, it still doesn't seem to be enough.