• Wahots
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      9 hours ago

      Pray they don’t, but I’m almost certain they will now that the US is appointing complete morons to every portion of the US government. The US won’t really be able to help until this rot gets cleaned out. China has four years before we can really help Taiwan again. (Or at least give them air superiority)

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      8 hours ago

      Biden just finalized the Arizona TSMC plant.

      If that gets invaded, I think semiconductors are the least of our problems.

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        6 hours ago

        But the Arizona plant wouldn’t be allowed to manufacture the most cutting edge chips.

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            47 minutes ago

            Taiwans rule. Foreign tsmc fabs have to be a gen behind. This would definitely change if China took over Taiwan, but who knows what China will do or allow at that point. They could shut the whole US fab down if they want. Even if they did try to re-tool the US fab (taiwan or china or tsmc) in a few years, it would cost billions and a lot of time to get it done.

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            4 hours ago

            Taiwan is incentivized to keep the latest and greatest local, so they can hopefully get protection from the USA and Europe