TechUK demands that Britain's chip strategy is crisped up

Almost two years after the British government published its National Semiconductor Strategy, calls are growing for bolder action and a faster implementation of its recommendations to deliver on its stated goals. Those bolder actions include setting up new national bodies to help chipmakers collaborate, secure financing, and …

[Anonymous Coward]

National Semiconductor Center?

I think you'll find that's a US organisation with precisely zero interest in what's happening in the UK. The body that's proposed by TechUK would be the National Semiconductor Centre.

[David M]

Re: National Semiconductor Center?

Thank you - I was about to make exactly the same comment.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: National Semiconductor Center?

Ah yes, the old fashioned spelling... much like the semiconductor industry here.

[UnknownUnknown]

Re: National Semiconductor Center?

… and the former National Semiconductor factory in Greenock…

https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/17991164.new-owners-pump-30m-greenock-factory-300-staff-now-books/

https://www.diodes.com/about/news/press-releases/scottish-enterprise-grant-helps-diodes-incorporated-grow-for-the-future-in-greenock/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Semiconductor

Still going … long after Compaq, IBM, Rodime, HP, Tmex, , NXR, HP manufacturing all fucked off/left Silicon Glen- offshored by Capitalism/Corporate nickel and diming to the Far East building up TSMC and Chinese Manufacturing… which is the problem 40 years later.

Looks like Scottish Govt’s Scottish Enterprise have a far better ability to support.

[cookiecutter]

wierdly they dont seem to have had a problem

with the Tories allowing the sale of ARM..

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: wierdly they dont seem to have had a problem

What are you, some kind of communist?

[UnknownUnknown]

Re: wierdly they dont seem to have had a problem

I don’t think the Dutch would let a questionable organisation like SoftBank ever buy ASML for comparison example.

[werdsmith]

Re: wierdly they dont seem to have had a problem

ASML is a company that makes equipment that is part of the fabrication process.

ARM is an IP company exploiting an ISA.

I also think that taking the money for ARM wasn't a good long term strategy for the country (fantastic for the big shareholders though), but they are not comparable with ASML.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: wierdly they dont seem to have had a problem

So you don't believe in capitalism and the free market? So you're a communist?