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

martinusher Silver badge

Re: Sure....

The Chinese wouldn't have to take over TSMC to shut it down. State of the art semiconductor fabrication is very close to Black Magic and so it needs a large number of things to go right for it to work. China is in a position to interfere with any one of them.

The whole reason for TSMC's existence is that its close to China and other Asian manufacturing hubs. Its an important piece of an international manufacturing puzzle. We started messing with that puzzle from a hemisphere away, interfering without being able to contribute alternative solutions, and we're reaping the consequences. China won't take over TSMC, it will render it irrelevant -- a far bigger danger for us and a far more likely scenario.

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