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The one advantage that GlobalFoundries can offer Apple is another domestic source for chips. Apple has said it wants to make more of its components in the U. TSMC's fabs are in Taiwan. Two years ago, Samsung and GlobalFoundries also "synced" four of their fabs, including Samsung's S2 fab and GlobalFoundries' Fab 8 in Malta, to include the latest chips for mobile devices. By syncing their fabs, the company can go to a customer and tell them that their chips will be made the same way by either company.

It is unclear if securing a deal to make Apple's chips will increase the need for GlobalFoundries to build a second fab in Malta. That facility, which would be known as Fab 8. Breaking News. At right is what a second manufacturing facility would look like. The existing factory, known as Module 1, is pictured at left. You should be afraid. But so should Beijing. Because this bullying behavior could be a huge miscalculation by Xi — for many reasons, but none more than this: semiconductors.

Yup, those little chips that are the building blocks of the 21st-century digital economy are a hidden underbelly of this drama. Taiwan is an austere rock in a typhoon-laden sea with 24 million people. But this little island has — by universal acclaim — the most sophisticated microchip manufacturer in the world, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC.

About miles away, across the straits, is mainland China, with 1. Most are the same ethnicity, speak the same language and eat the same food as the people of Taiwan. But they have never been able to master the manufacture of the most advanced logic chips that TSMC makes. Indeed, TSMC and its South Korean rival Samsung have the only foundries in the world able to make the most advanced 5-nanometer chips, and TSMC is expected to begin next-generation 3-nanometer chips in The company has significantly cut back its research and development activities to focus on customers for its 14 nanometer chips instead of offering next-generation technology.

GlobalFoundries also operates a fab in East Fishkill where 1, people work. Schumer says that GlobalFoundries has been putting in place "highly restrictive export control security measures" at its Malta fab, making it more appealing to the Defense Department for its chip supply.

TSMC is GlobalFoundries' main rival in the so-called foundry business that makes chips for other companies that don't have their own factories. Breaking News. Provided Show More Show Less.