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If a war rendered TSMC unavailable it would crash the global economy. There is no next best option.
by 45764986 11mo ago
If a war rendered TSMC unavailable it would crash the global economy. There is no next best option.
- astrange 11mo agoSamsung, Intel, SMIC are not incredibly far behind. TSMC is the best because we (the US and its customers) trust them more than its competitors and so fund its R&D and license them more exclusive technologies.
- dontlaugh 11mo agoSMIC in particular have made very quick progress. They’d probably match TSMC first in such a scenario.
- ta9000 11mo agoIn case of a war, SMIC would likely also be unavailable.
- dontlaugh 11mo agoUnavailable to whom exactly?
- astrange 11mo agoNo they haven't, they're just trying to show off by running older processes with high failure rates very hard to make it look like they can keep up. We're not giving them EUV and they can't reinvent it, so they're stuck.