China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan
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Apparently TSCM will raise prices on all chips/customers by a baseline 15% in order to offset tarrif costs in America.
Invide away China. Time to take the capitalist class down a notch.
/s in case it's needed.
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So with the new plants coming online in the US, how much of the world's chips does Taiwan make?
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You read:
This shift follows China’s diplomatic push targeting the Global South
And you somehow thought they were talking about Europe?
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You read:
the world
And somehow thought that the opinions of some of the most stable and respected nations in the world don't matter?
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All of them.
The US plants may be coming online but it will still be years before they're at production capacity, and they'll probably never have all of the same production capabilities. The chip fabrication lines in Taiwan have been decades in development and growth.
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TAIWAN #1
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Also even if we could make all of the chips, Taiwan still holds almost all the other incidental processes (especially packaging) that most advanced chip designs require these days.
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AFAIK the American plants use inputs from Taiwan. I don't know what inputs exactly.
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The chip fabrication lines in Taiwan have been decades in development and growth.
Decades the US can learn from to catch up quicker and eventually eclipse them.
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From the text:
Meanwhile, the U.S. and allies struggle to counter China’s influence.
What allies? There are some regional actors in Asia opposed to the PRC's imperialism, but the list of potential allies has gone down by a lot with Trump's actions.
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Maybe. Some of the older fabrication is still in heavy production use (e.g. 28nm, 16nm, 7nm):
These produce a lot of the chips that go into everything electronic, things like bus controllers and timing ICs, which are needed in higher volumes than CPUs and GPUs. But I kind of doubt the older fab technology will be a priority to build in the new facility.
TSMC isn't just a single factory production line that gets upgraded to the latest and greatest every year. It's a collection of many fabrication technologies that has grown and developed organically over time. While it will be helpful to build a new facility with the benefit of lessons learned in Taiwan, it will not be possible to completely replicate what that original facility is.
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Yeah, it's more than just the fabrication machines, it's a massive logistics network.
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Sorry... who's dying in a war against Russia? Taiwan or Europeans? Because I'm pretty sure unless you mean the Europeans specifically in Ukraine, it's neither.
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It’s wild how much stuff is manufactured on processes considered obsolete for high end cpu/gpu production
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We literally eliminated the Department of Education.
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China #4!
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The Z80 (which was the core processor of the TI-8x calculators) was only just discontinued last year. Lots of old chip designs find uses in embedded devices and consumer electronics.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
