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TSMC have two 16nm fabs and are building a 10nm fab.
by jdietrich 10y ago
TSMC have two 16nm fabs and are building a 10nm fab.
- umanwizard 10y agoTSMC fabs are mostly in Taiwan, not China.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoAnd Taiwan would never let those fabs go to China, they have plenty of laws against that. Only oldish fab tech can be exported to the Mainland.
- akiselev 10y agoTaiwan is not China. Where in China is TSMC building cutting edge semiconductor fab?
- jdietrich 10y agoThe Republic of China is not recognised by the UN. It is no more a state than Transnistria or South Ossetia.
- akiselev 10y agoComparing Taiwan, which has been functionally independent of the PRC and under control of the ROC since 1945, to South Ossetia or Transnistria is absolutely ridiculous. Just because Taiwan isn't widely recognized by the international community doesn't mean that it isn't an entirely separate socioeconomic entity. A brief glance at the last two decades of politics in Taiwan will show you as much.
- umanwizard 10y agoThe UN is totally irrelevant here. Taiwan operates as an independent country in every practical way. (So does Hong Kong, kinda, but Taiwan even more so.)
- klodolph 10y agoTo clarify, by "China" I mean People's Republic of China, not Republic of China (which is usually called Taiwan).