_tk_Mar 29

First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales

https://mashable.com/article/sony-sd-card-sales-suspended-memory-shortage

First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales

A sign of the times.

Mashable
Show threadprofsummergig

Some years ago, Modi announced that he was going to make India go all-in on semiconductors. When I read that the first facility to begin commercial production was going to be Micron with memory chips, I did an eyeroll. Memory chips? And just an assembly and testing facility? To me that seemed like an easy cop-out. To me (my admittedly naive self), wafer fabs and CPUs seemed like the real game.

Now, with what has happened with memory chip prices, it almost seems like they got lucky (the Micron facility is doing commercial shipments now).

Obama used to talk about having "spooky" good luck. I think Modi has some of that too.

Mar 29 at 7:08pmWeb
Show threadpjc50Mar 29
Just opened this year, apparently: https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-deta...
Show threadufmaceMar 29
I would think if you're a developing country looking to build some domestic semiconductor manufacturing expertise, it'd probably be best to start with something on the easier side. Something with closer to well-known and standard tech that can still be sold on the open market.
Show threadprofsummergigMar 29
This was exactly their thinking. Build an ecosystem by starting with easier things, and progressively doing more difficult things.
Show threadmike50Mar 29
It's just an attempt to copy Taiwan and the Philippines by starting with the labor intensive low value add part of semiconductor manufacturing.