Post ARGJSyWvASbuJ4eZge by gerrowadat@mastodon.ie
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 (DIR) Post #ARGJSy4CtDdqs1Ddvk by davey_cakes@mastodon.ie
       2023-01-02T11:27:58Z
       
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       Remember when Dell pulled out of Limerick and Ruth Coppinger suggested we nationalise the plant and find someone to make chips for, and Official Ireland had a mickey fit, and now we're in a years long shortage of chips? Gas craic.Remember kids, socialists just say no to everything and never offer solutions. Lord hear us.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARGJSyWvASbuJ4eZge by gerrowadat@mastodon.ie
       2023-01-02T11:55:37Z
       
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       @davey_cakes in fairness the suggestion was to just keep making dell servers and desktops with the equipment there, and somehow ignore the lack of a parts supply chain and getting sued into oblivion. Dell don't make chips.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARGJSzGIRkuGZnsoPg by davey_cakes@mastodon.ie
       2023-01-02T13:30:06Z
       
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       @gerrowadat don't recall her saying that. Conversation at the time tended to involve using Soitec in France as a reference point. They're nationally owned and part of the chip supply chain.More optimal, specific courses could have been pursued in partnership with industry, but nobody wanted to hear it. In the last few years there have been companies with millions sitting on the table waiting for a fab to be open for months to years. Missed opportunity imho.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARGJSzlUZlrO8YTj2O by gerrowadat@mastodon.ie
       2023-01-03T04:20:09Z
       
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       @davey_cakes still not getting it. Literally zero infrastructure, equipment or expertise in any part of chip making left the area with dell. I could see some degree of sense in seeing if the state could have a stake in some other consumer/assembly line style business but I think saying this could have affected the chip shortage issue is a red herring.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARGJT0Fcljxle0Zn0K by ivan@vucica.net
       2023-01-03T09:43:28.189513Z
       
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       @gerrowadat Amusingly, Irish chip production capacity is infinitely larger than the nonexistent Croatian one, in the form of Intel’s fabs. Ireland played a lot of cards right over the decades, something that becomes clear when looking at countries that… didn’t.I just wish pre-university education took programming competitions more seriously, though. That stuff breeds local talent (personal experience in Croatia) so fewer of us transplants would be needed.@davey_cakes
       
 (DIR) Post #ARGN8OnQiNmzVOoqzQ by davey_cakes@mastodon.ie
       2023-01-03T09:47:54Z
       
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       @ivan @gerrowadat Limerick has Analog doing wafer fab too. So if someone managed to get 2,000 people working on the chip supply chain in Limerick, it wouldn't even be the first time.