Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger has thrown shade on Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC's plans to build fabrication plants in the USA, saying the factories will do nothing to advance American semiconductor leadership. "If you don't have R&D in the US, you will not have semiconductor leadership in the US," Gelsinger said, according to a report this week in the Financial Times. "All of the R&D work of TSMC is in Taiwan, and they haven't made any announcements to move that,” Gelsinger pointed out, effectively ass...