Infineon Technologies' new Smart Power Fab expands chip manufacturing in Germany with a massive $5.7 billion investment.

Infineon Technologies has opened its Smart Power Fab in Dresden, Germany, months ahead of schedule, bringing the world’s largest manufacturing facility for intelligent power semiconductors and analog/mixed-signal technologies into operation.

The facility represents a €5 billion (about $5.7 billion) investment, the largest in the company’s history. It creates 1,000 direct jobs and doubles Infineon’s manufacturing capacity in Dresden.

The factory will produce chips that improve how electricity is converted and managed. Those devices will support AI data centers. They will also help power electricity grids and software-defined vehicles.

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  • jdr@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    They don’t “help”. They’re not your neighbour lending a hand. They’re fucking transistors.

    • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 days ago

      What do you call it then when a tool makes something easier or better? Or some medicine?

      I’d say my favourite herbal tea helps with nausea, but I guess it doesn’t have hands to… Uh, gently stroke my stomach lining and calm it down?

      • jdr@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        But they don’t just make it easier. They are the thing. Does water “help” your tea? It’s just marketing bullshit trying to make chips sound friendly.

        • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Water is not a tool, it’s a resource. It does help extract the useful parts from the herbs into something more easily consumed though.

          But I don’t think a tool or resource helping with some process necessarily makes them sound friendly. The list of things they’re used for is led with Data Centres, after all, which I’m pretty sure is not exactly a useful marketing decision, given the publicity around people hating Data Centres.

          • jdr@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Unless you trying to friendlify data centers…

            Anyway if water isn’t a tool then how water hammer?

            • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
              11·
              3 days ago

              Unless you trying to friendlify data centers…

              “The factory will produce chips that improve how electricity is converted and managed. Those devices will support AI data centers. They will also help power electricity grids and software-defined vehicles.”

              The term “help” appears after the data centres.

              Besides, how would friendlifying the chips extend to the data centres they’re used for? It still doesn’t justify the data centres. If I help with beating up a grandma, that still doesn’t make beating up the grandma a good thing or make my “help” actually friendly.

              Anyway if water isn’t a tool then how water hammer?

              Take your pick:

              1. “Water isn’t a tool” was said in the specific context of making tea and was not intended to be understood as some universal description
              2. “Water hammer” is a physical effect wherein the water is merely the carrier for the inertia that produces the effect
              3. Nice pedantry