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quettil t1_ixgeayr wrote

Reply to comment by Pandatotheface in TSMC Racing to 1nm, Investing $32 Billion for Fab: Report by brohymn80

What good would it do them? TSMC relies on Western technology to make the chips, and they'd quickly become obsolete, assuming they're not blown up before the Chinese can get them.

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Pandatotheface t1_ixic13b wrote

There's much more to Taiwan than just chips for china, it's a wealthy country for lots of reasons, and they've wanted it even before it was wealthy, it's home to their political rivals they've been trying to kill for the last century, chips are only in the news at the moment because that's the US interest in Taiwan.

And besides that, just going scorched earth and leveling the playing field, if China can't get them, at least the US can't either.

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quettil t1_ixiue2b wrote

If they invaded, it would destroy everything that made it wealthy.

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