The island of Hokkaido has long been an agricultural powerhouse – now Japan is investing billions to turn it into a global hub for advanced semiconductors.
sensationalist BBC headline makes it sound like a chip fab will span the entirety of Hokkaido. That aside, the winding down of globalization combined with a global arms buildup and a prioritized native manufacturing of semiconductors does not bode well for future peace. Clearly everyone relying on Taiwan was not good, but nobody relying on anybody might just be worse.
Great just what it needs a bunch of AI data centers. We really are speed running our dismiss.
A chip fab is related to AI data centers just as much as a corn farm is related to IKEA meatballs.
If demand for meatballs goes up, you’ll want more cows which need more feed, which includes corn. But making more corn doesn’t cause more meatballs to show up at IKEA.
It’s a chip fab?
