REVIEW: #CHIPS: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Chris Riegel of Scala.com re the Bloomberg report from the trade site SEMI that Beijing intends to bring 18 fabs online in 2024. Not high end fabs. Rather routine low-end. What does this mean f
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
https://www.semi.org/en/news-media-press-releases/semi-press-releases/global-semiconductor-capacity-projected-to-reach-record-high-30-million-wafers-per-month-in-2024-semi-reports
1955
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | With Peloton offering up to 400 pounds of selected bike plus and tread packages, |
| 0:04.7 | you might go all in with their classes and become a marathon training, shadow boxing, weightlifting, |
| 0:09.2 | yoga-loving force of nature, or you may just want to be able to touch your toes. From big sweaty |
| 0:15.8 | goals to bendy toe touching goals and everything in between start strong with |
| 0:19.7 | up to 400 pounds of selected Peloton packages. |
| 0:22.8 | Offrons 31st of January 2024. |
| 0:24.7 | Internet Connection and Peloton all access membership at 39 pounds per month required. |
| 0:27.8 | Terms apply. |
| 0:28.4 | See one Peloton. |
| 0:29.2 | Code at UK. |
| 0:30.6 | This is John Batcher, conversation about microchips with my colleague Chris Regal of scholar.com. |
| 0:36.0 | The report in Bloomberg that China is building 18 fabs to come online in 2024. 18 fabs. |
| 0:45.0 | This is not the high end and Chris makes an important distinction. |
| 0:50.0 | 18 fabs tells me this is command economy thinking. |
| 0:54.0 | 18-Fabs tells me that foreign investment is not coming into China |
| 0:59.0 | and that Shizin-ping has decided again |
| 1:02.0 | to pull up the drawbridge and do it ourselves. |
| 1:05.2 | 18 fabs. |
| 1:07.2 | The command economy and the surging of markets, we saw that with the solar panels once upon a time. Did not work then, will |
| 1:16.2 | not work now. However, 18 new fabs, what does it mean about competition with the U.S. and Japan and Korea and Europe. |
| 1:25.8 | 18 new fabs, not high end, low end. |
| 1:30.1 | Chris explains. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

