Silicon foundries surge to new revenue records, but Texas cold snap sent Samsung backwards

The world's top 10 semiconductor foundries set new records for combined revenue in 1Q21 by growing one percent quarter-on-quarter to reach US$22.75B, thanks to price hikes and full utilization of chip stocks, market research firm TrendForce said on Monday. TSMC remained the top player in Q1 2021 with 55 percent of market share …

[Dunstan Vavasour]

Drought in Taiwan

If it doesn't rain on Taiwan soon, the Texas power problems could look like small beer.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Drought in Taiwan

That's the problem with locating your fabs in 3rd World locations

Any betting on who gets the hurricane or disgruntled-employee-with-AR15 first ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Drought in Taiwan

Admittedly, I do tend to think of Texas as a third world country.

[DS999]

Re: Drought in Taiwan

The cost to truck in water is a rounding error in their total revenue.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, memories..

Expensive memories even - I can vaguely recall we paid very high prices for memory in the days of the PC XT.