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The pledge of the semiconductor manufacturing company in Taiwan to spend an additional $ 100 billion on advanced manufacturing factories in the United States will only do little to help the country regain its global progress in the chips industry, according to Pat Gildenger, who was forced to leave the Intel president late last year.

His comments come less than a month after the White House praised investment From TSMC, the world’s largest dreltering manufacturer, as an important teacher in efforts to make the production of semiconductors the most advanced to American soil.

“If you do not have R&D in the United States, you will not have semiconductor driving in the United States,” said Gilgringer. “All TSMC research and development work is present in Taiwan, and they have not issued any ads to move this.”

However, the former Intel president added that President Donald Trump’s introductions were at least “increasingly useful” to the United States by granting two tsmc factories more incentive to determine their facilities in the country.

The Trump administration has severely bowed on TSMC amid doubts about Intel’s ability to restore the progress of the global manufacturing it lost to the Taiwanese company a decade ago.

Margin departure Late late last year was widely seen as a process that was evacuated by his complex plan, which included an attempt to rebuild the Intel manufacturing base. Lips Tan, he was appointed Earlier this monthHe has not yet set his strategy.

The former CEO of Intel will not comment on whether he had fallen with Intel managers about the strategy, but indicated that he lost their confidence in less than four years in his five -year plan.

“I had not finished the five years that exceeded it when the council changed my direction,” he said.

TSMC said that the only development work it plans to implement in the United States will be on the technology of the process that it already has in production, and that the basic research and its development will remain in Taiwan.

“Unless you design the transistor technology from the next generation in the United States, you will not have leadership in the United States,” Gilgringer said.

He was speaking in an interview this week after he became a partner at Playground Global, a Silicon Valley Investment Capital company specialized in “deep technology” investments, including in areas such as quantum computing and new chips.

Despite the loss of the advanced operations technology used in the manufacture of chips, Geelsiner said that the United States still has a global advantage in many advanced technologies that are likely to determine future leadership in artificial intelligence.

He also ignored suggestions that the Chinese company Deepseek, which shocked American technology experts and investors with low -cost technology earlier this year, is a serious challenge for American companies.

“Dibsic was a good engineering, it was not the basic innovations. It was not a big breakthrough,” he said.

The startups supported by the Xlight stadium, which can play advanced laser rays a role in future generations of stone printing needed to make chips. Other investments include Psiquantum, the first quantum computing company to build a large -scale quantitative machine, and a matrix D, one of the number of startups that try to jump NVIDIA to make chips needed to operate artificial intelligence systems, a task known as inference.

While he was in Intel, Geelsiner failed to compensate for NVIDIA in AI chips, although he said this week that new technologies were needed to bring artificial intelligence to the main current.

“Artificial intelligence is as exciting, it is very expensive,” he said. “We must have significant discounts in the cost of inference in order to really spread it in every aspect of humanity.”