Ukraine: First time?
Didn’t Biden try to get Taiwan to make chips in the US but they thought Americans were too dumb to learn how to make them lmao
true story
TSMC does have fabs in Arizona now. Next to the Intel fabs. 😆
It’s more about money and proprietary tech.
Cutting edge fabs are expensive and risky, which is why most chip companies are fabless, and they should be a state project because of the risk and expense. I’ve seen estimates of $15-$20 billion dollars to setup a new 3nm fab.
Intel, TSMC, and Samsung are the 3 companies left which run cutting edge fabs. Intel missed on a couple generations, and they are sinking. Samsung is lagging, so it remains to be seen how long they’re in the game.
TSMC figured out the new tech and Intel didn’t. TSMC picked the correct horse, and Intel didn’t. It’s my understanding Intel couldn’t switch to the TSMC process if they wanted to. The two are different enough to be incompatible.
i read that the american workers were too entitled to take the abuse from their taiwanese task masters so they imported their own compliant workers.
too entitled to take the abuse
too entitled to learn from people who are clearly smarter then they are
How did he think that was going to go? Did he think they’d be all “let’s hand over the only thing keeping the us invested in our sovereignty hehehe”
Sure, the US cares so much about Taiwan province’s sovereignty. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think about the US is how much they care about other nation’s sovereignty.
Notice I didn’t say care. I know they don’t care but they do spend a shit ton of money posturing, running military drills, and threatening China over them.
yeah i meant it because of the “invested” i know you dont think that just wanted to make a joke fellow comrade
Oh I see I apologize
Wouldn’t be the first time a country made that mistake I guess
Trump needs to realise he really doesn’t have the cards.
That was the only possible response
Trump: Why don’t you guys move half your manufacturing to the US…that way we still get your chips even if China invades?
Taiwan: Ummm. Yeah, no.
More like
Taiwan: Ummm, China is not going to invade, that is just your shitty propaganda
If that were the case, why ask them to move their production to the US…and why would Taiwan refuse? Those chips are leverage.
It’s also their economy. They might refuse because they want to eat.
America doesn’t need half of it’s national demand met by domestic production. Just enough to not need to start from scratch should China gain control over Taiwan. South Korea might already be fulfilling that role with GlobalFoundries (though that’s owned by the UAE so … ).
It’d be a nightmare trying to get the skilled foreign labor into America these days though so it’s a lost cause anyway.
A “demand” is not a negotiation. I’m starting to think that trump is neither a good businessman nor a good negotiator. /s
