2025-12-04
The complexity of setting up high tech plants in the US gives Saudi a competitive advantage in its plans to set up large data centers.Of note also in this article that even the US needs to import large numbers of Taiwanese staff. https://www.nytimes.com/... vi
New York Times
How TSMC, Intel, and Amkor are transforming Phoenix into a US chip hub, investing tens of billions and illustrating the difficulties of large-scale US projects
The transformation of Phoenix into a semiconductor hub by Taiwan's TSMC illustrates the difficulties of large-scale projects in the United States.
The complexity of setting up high tech plants in the US gives Saudi a competitive advantage in its plans to set up large data centers.Of note also in this article that even the US needs to import large numbers of Taiwanese staff. https://www.nytimes.com/... vi
New York Times
A look at “TSMC Village” in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings skilled workers from Taiwan who struggle with adapting to a sprawling suburbia and summer temperatures
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times :
2023-08-15
“Many Chinese nationals with AI expertise have chosen to work at Kaust because they have been prevented from studying and working in the US after graduating from Chinese universities on the US entity list, according to two Kaust sources”. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: Saudi Arabia bought 3,000+ Nvidia H100 GPUs and the UAE purchased thousands of Nvidia GPUs; Nvidia expects to ship ~550K H100 GPUs globally in 2023
it's the $40,000 chip that has sparked a frenzied spending spree Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Saudi Arabia and UAE invest in thousands of Nvidia chips, aiming to become global AI power...