10.8.02023

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clean out

If we want to change something for the better in our country, then we urgently need to shorten all decision-making processes. In order for this to happen, we must also reduce the respective decision-making chains to the necessary minimum; Digitization and artificial intelligence could definitely be helpful here.

We will also not be able to avoid a necessary clean-up and should streamline all administrations, both public and private, as quickly as possible. I assume that if half of all employees are released initially, the administrations will have a chance to function again. Since this will certainly bring about social upheaval, one can start by simply leaving those who are actually to be made redundant at home and this combined with the promise that they will not try to make themselves useful at their former “workplace”.

If you find out later that you have wrongly dismissed an employee, you can bring them back. I am firmly convinced that this will give our economy and society the necessary boost for the better.

conversations

Hans Bernhard Mistele In a statement yesterday, rightly pointed out once again that Heilbronn's recent choice of partner city was not so much based on reason and responsibility, but rather entirely and solely to offer the city leaders and the municipal council another free excursion destination. It's just a pity that our new partners from Novorossiysk have been fully occupied with a war of aggression ever since and our municipal councils currently have hardly any more celebrations to offer. It would be more honest to tell the residents of Novorossiysk that cooperation will certainly not be possible in the coming years and to end this "partnership", which was very unfortunate from the start.

But the highlight of yesterday was an in-depth conversation with Detlef Stern, which revolved around computers, software and slip boxes. But social media was not neglected either, although we are getting closer and closer in our assessment. And there was also a coffee, what more could you ask for? It's just a pity that the café we chose in the city center no longer offers service.

TSMC 

The world market leader in computer chip production comes from Taiwan. For a long time, this high technology has been regarded by the Taiwanese as a guarantee of their country's existence, since the West is also dependent on these chips. If the island were occupied by China, there would certainly at least be a bottleneck and the West would then be at the mercy of China for better or for worse.

The Taiwanese are now building not only the most, but also the best chips in their 300mm wafer fabs, and have achieved a skill unmatched outside of Taiwan. For these two reasons, it was not possible for the Americans for a long time to persuade the Taiwanese to open other factories in the USA.

Meanwhile, the Taiwanese have given in and are building at least two such factories in the United States. And as I read recently, Americans have been forced to send their own professionals to Taiwan for training and education. And to this day no one knows whether the Taiwanese will be able to produce such high-quality technology in the USA as in Taiwan, because the necessary personnel have been trained and educated in Taiwan for decades.

The Japanese were able to follow suit recently and are also getting a 300 mm wafer plant. Now TSMC is also making headlines in Germany, because the Taiwanese will also operate a new plant there together with the companies Bosch, Infineon and NXP with 2 to 000 employees — more or less voluntarily.

The size of the investment, at a good 10 billion euros, is on a similar level to that in the two plants in the USA and in Japan. In Germany, however, only half of the sum is raised by the companies involved. The German taxpayer bears the lion's share of the costs - at least 5 billion euros are added by us in Dresden alone. All in all, a good 15 billion euros in tax money will probably be due for the two new chip factories (Magdeburg and Dresden). Further and probably similarly high tax money flows to Arnstadt and Grünheide.

But the bigger problem lies somewhere else, because if TSMC also wants to produce similarly high quality in Germany, it would need a good 3 qualified specialists and these will certainly hardly be found in Saxony, especially since there is already another chip factory in Saxony -Anhalt is planned, which will also require skilled workers.

If we don't succeed in generating these 5 new specialists within three years at the latest, then they will have to be hired externally, e.g. B. from China or India, are recruited. As a result, we probably need a lot of additional security forces so that the Saxons don't rush their new citizens who are willing to work through the streets.

However, we probably only care that in the constituency of the current Federal Chancellor, as in the constituency of his predecessor, billions of taxpayers' money are wasted completely senselessly. But this attempt, namely to turn the majority of the citizens of the new federal states into democrats with even more subsidies and transfer payments, is likely to fail.

Perhaps our politicians will then realize that democracy and democrats cannot be bought. After the Second World War, education and culture were tried in the West, which demonstrably worked better.

Incidentally, the high-quality chips will continue to come from Taiwan, the USA and Japan for years to come, at least as long as we do not locate our chip factories where there are already highly qualified employees who are willing to work and also like to live there.

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