Ford getting into the microchip business

[Ludachris]

Not too surprised by this...

GlobalFoundries Stock Is Taking Off on Ford Chip Deal

Ford wants to vertically integrate into semiconductor supply. It's formed an alliance with a global semiconductor manufacturer.

www.barrons.com

Seems like a logical thing to do. And the chips are going to be made in the US - more jobs possibly, even if they're mostly made with robots.

 

[JDee]

Long overdue, it's a fool's errand that we let manufacturing of all kinds slide off to the far east. Becoming dependent on China for anything is lunacy.

 

[302BOB]

Becoming dependent on China for anything is lunacy.

The main reason that happened is that their lunacy was cheaper than ours...20-20 vision always kicks in when it needs to....................

 

[PatrickStapler]

I'm waiting on our energy secretary to step and file sanctions against Ford that the chips can only be used to support EV's.

 

[JAJ]

So, here's why US military assets are collecting around Taiwan as the real China makes noises (the "T" in TSMC stands for "Taiwan"):


Ford has just teamed up with a semiconductor also-ran. Well done. Hopefully they'll produce chips that were modern as recently as 2011, or if we're really lucky, maybe 2016.

 

[Ludachris]

Hopefully they'll produce chips that were modern as recently as 2011, or if we're really lucky, maybe 2016

Like most chips in the automotive world?

 

[TMSBOSS]

Because we need a smaller chip? All the chips in a car now can fit in a glove in the box and still have room for three fingers.

 

[302BOB]

Anybody remember how big the first computer was???? You had to have a whole room to fit it in....My first cell phone was like a walkie-talkie LOL...Cell phones got a little too small before smart phones hit the scene......My new dumb phone is a little bigger than my old 3G phone....Chips will get better and smaller until they reach they're max.

 

[JDee]

Anybody remember the Osborne 1 computer? From like 1981? Played Space Invaders pretty good, if you like monochrome lines of triangles. And did little else. At least the one that was in the scale shack in the place where I worked at the time. It was supposed to receive weights from the scale, but they could never quite get it and the scale to talk.

I figured computers would never catch on, and look where we are today! Some futurist I am.

 

[302BOB]

I figured computers would never catch on, and look where we are today! Some futurist I am.

JDee, You and me Both !!...But ,You have to admit, we were both wrong..................Just a tad..............I still have a dumb phone, so I will be me.....for a while more...........

 

[Ludachris]

Not related to the Ford microchip story, but still relevant:

Arizona is becoming a microchip manufacturing center at just the right time

A worldwide shortage of microchips is turning the semiconductor industry on its head. As it turns out, that is good news for Arizona, and more importantly, the greater Phoenix area.

www.abc15.com

Intel to Spend $20 Billion on 2 New Chip Factories in Arizona. (Published 2021)

Patrick Gelsinger, Intel’s chief executive, vowed on Tuesday that Intel would become a major manufacturer of chips for other companies, in addition to producing the processors that it has long designed and sold.

www.nytimes.com

America Needs To Build Our Own Chip Plants For Sake Of Auto Industry

That’s how many manufacturing folks feel about the microchip shortage.

www.forbes.com

 

[TMSBOSS]

The microchip issue reminds me of the telecommunications industry issues we had in the eighties. Bottomline was no one in the states, read AT&T, was developing new ideas for that market. We simply bought what ever the French made. Our DOD communications systems depended upon EUROPE for hardware. Not a good situation. The end result, Ma Bell was Split up. Competition and development began again At home.
It seems to take a crisis for us to wake up. Let’s hope we shake off the hangover and get to producing at home very soon.

 

[ChrisM]

Well yeah, somebody's got to supply them to Pfizer et al.

I kid, I'm good with this. Make domestic manufacturing great again.