Isn't Taiwan also seismically active? They are reports of earthquakes affecting TSMC fabs in january 2025 and april 2024.

Apparently these were not huge blows to their fabs, otherwise we would be talking about that day-in-day-out, but there's always a risk of that happening.

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ehnto 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Seems silly to be talking about this as if this is some kind of global consortium effort.

Japan is building Japan at semi conductor industry, for the benefit of itself, of course it is located in Japan.

	▲	KeplerBoy 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, Japan and Taiwan have no choice. They have to build on their seismically active islands or give up, which is not an option.

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zamadatix 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Seems even more active, at least according to number of magnitude 6+ earthquakes since 1900 in the region https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=12.72608...