• unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    Yes, all of the most advanced chip making factories are in Taiwan. It’s the biggest reason that the US passed the CHIPS act and also why there is so much geopolitical tension around Taiwan.

    Why did you think there was so much focus on Taiwan? Boba is great and all, but surely it doesn’t merit the protection of the US Navy. 😁

    • QuantumBamboo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      I would love to have been a fly on the wall when the person who came up with the name Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors revealed their idea. I’ve got an image of someone sitting on their hands, eyes wide and shaking slightly as their desire to share it tries to burst out of them!

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      7 months ago

      It’s probably the modern reason, but before semiconductors there was already a lot of nationalistic tension around Taiwan.

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      7 months ago

      Yes, all of the most advanced chip making factories are in Taiwan.

      Not really. The most advanced manufacturing sites are still in laboratories in the United States and Europe, it’s just that they are not suited for mass production.

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      7 months ago

      Yes, all of the most advanced chip making factories are in Taiwan.

      Intel is back in the game with PowerVia after the endless blunder that was 10nm.

      In grander strategic terms Taiwan is, technologically, erm, dispensable. Both Europe and the US can, independently, make chips that are good enough, that are fast enough, to be used in any application the question is whether they’re cheap enough for high-end commercial use. The military doesn’t care if a chip costs twice as much and is twice as heavy the propellant and warhead of the rocket weigh magnitudes more anyway.

      Where Taiwan is indispensable is being a thorn in China’s side which has strategic value all of its own.