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TMWNN on May 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple to occupy 90% of TSMC 3nm capacity in 2023

>It remains to be seen whether it can even be done. Toyota famously failed with a similar attempt in Fremont, California.

Every Japanese auto maker has had US plants for decades. Toyota's oldest, in Georgetown KY, has been there since 1986.

Strom on May 16, 2023 [–]

The Fremont factory predates the Georgetown factory by a few years, and of course even more if we consider the pre-Toyota history of it.

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