The United States Department of Commerce Monday proposed investing as much as $6.6 billion to fund a third Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
China tensions underline US investment in TSMC
Submitted 7 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/08/china-tensions-underline-us-investment-in-tsmc/
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Um… duh? Welcome to the conversation?
TSMC is the reason China keeps doing this shit:
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It’s pretty obvious they’re planning an invasion.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
TSMC is a part of it, but the whole invasion plan is mostly out of shame. China wants to reclaim what they believe rightfully belongs to them.
The TSMC was created as a country’s defense strategy, it’s commonly referred to as “silicon shield”, but Taiwan’s over reliance on it and lack of military investment of their own prompted US to reduce the reliance of TSMC so that they would have a choice if they want to defend them or not.
And invasion is risky for China too, even without US intervention. China is being supplied millions upon millions of chips by TSMC as of today (low to mid-end) and if they invade and TSMC fabs gets damaged or sabotaged they lose all that supply.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
Couldn’t Taiwan find a country willing to “harbor” the entire population and move with all their hardware, leaving the country empty for the Chinese to do what they like? Might be easier than trying to get China to be reasonable…
What will Taiwan be worth to China if all profitable businesses move?
Anti Commercial AI thingy
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quicksand@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Getting a fab up and running is an incredibly time and capital intensive ideal. And the hardware they use, known as ‘tools’, are not designed to sit in some dusty warehouse in the meantime. Even if it was feasible to move them all out at once. Like this is sensitive equipment and there’s tons of it. There’s no way they’re moving entire fabs out. The money lost in downtime alone would be astronomical.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Let me stop you right there - how exactly do you propose to move 24 million people?
It is worthwhile to talk about possible alternatives, and I don’t think you should be getting down votes for it, but this isn’t feasible.
The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 7 months ago
hahaha
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 7 months ago
I’m not sure what you’re going for here.
Are you implying that Taiwan is not an independent country?