Intel isn’t that far behind. But it is dumb to depend on fabs in a country that is just one Chinese missile away from getting destroyed.

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iamtedd 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

That's most of the world, including the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...

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raw_anon_1111 6 days ago | parent [-]

So you don’t see the difference in the threat level of China bombing and invading Taiwan - which they already claim they own - and China attacking the US directly?

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iamtedd 6 days ago | parent [-]

I don't, because I'm not in the US. But my comment was in reply to the actual text of the grandparent, not some imagined subtext between the lines.

	▲	raw_anon_1111 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		So its just an imagined subtext that China that has been rabble rousing about taking over Taiwan is more likely to attack a tiny island nation right next to than attack the US?

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iszomer 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And why would they when TSMC is in both China and the US in some fashion?

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raw_anon_1111 6 days ago | parent [-]

And Taiwan is forbidding TSMC from building their cutting edge fabs in the US…

https://www.asiafinancial.com/taiwan-says-tsmc-not-allowed-t...

That may have changed since then. But do you really want to depend on a foreign government for chip manufacturing?

	▲	iszomer 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As Taiwan should, it's their prerogative. People often think when global policy changes abruptly everything stops; in reality, the contrary is true: supply chains and demands shift. For what it's worth, its TSMC's expertise in semiconductor manufacturing that has been loaned to the US, not bought, settled, and forgotten.