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TSMC and China: Mutually assured destruction now measured in nanometers, not megatons

Dwarf

Real TCO / impact on GDP

I wonder what the true cost saving has been for cheap outsourcing to China and India for key services that the world relies on, when the timeframe of measurement is from the point it went there, to past the point where the facility is no longer on-line and available to anyone and dependant industries go off-line.

It looks like a more grown up diverse supply chain needs to be in place so that we still have manufacturing facilities, even if some dictator of the day decides to do something silly half way around the planet, since the ripples are always felt across the planet.

We've already seen the following and the list will only get longer over time :

The impact of COVID on silicon manufacturing and loads of related technologies from consumer goods to cars and beyond.

CO2 dry up due to COVID and the impact on being able to process pigs into foodstuffs and then pack those foodstuffs. That also impacted beer.

Food supply / fuel supply because of what's going in in Ukraine.

Baby milk issues in America due to one plant closing down due to contamination.

I hope that governments are already starting to think about resilience, blast radiuses and dependency trees like we would in IT related programmes, but focused around key manufacturing, food, fuel and related supply lines at a global level.

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