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> What would happen if for any reasons the biggest fabs are destroyed? it "just" takes some years and heaping piles of money to replace them. though probably m

> What would happen if for any reasons the biggest fabs are destroyed? it "just" takes some years and heaping piles of money to replace them. though probably more if you're trying to replace them all at once, as there aren't a lot of folks who make the equipment to rebuild the fabs. > It would take years to get more than half of a century of accumulated knowledge just from patents, and that's not even counting industrial secrets and all the economical machine needed to support such an industry. sounds like you're more concerned about loss of the personnel and records, rather than the buildings. > I can't think of any project entirely focused on building from scratch and kick-starting the industrial motor of modern civilization. i mean, "world peace" is generally concerned with preventing it from being destroyed in the first place. conventional wisdom is that taiwan bases a chunk of their national security on nobody wanting to see TSMC ruined.

riversflow 6y ago
World peace will only go so far if a huge solar storm hits us and we are not adequately prepared.
TeeMassive 6y ago
> it "just" takes some years and heaping piles of money to replace them. though probably more if you're trying to replace them all at once, as there aren't a lot of folks who make the equipment to rebuild the fabs. You can't buy an economy. You'll need a petrochemical industry for example for all the insulators and other substances that go into the making of chips and you'll need mines for precious metals or recycle them from scratch and of course an energy industry. Just those few examples are their own are giant economical pyramids on their own rights, and would be very hard to replace even if most relevant university graduates made it alive to this point. > sounds like you're more concerned about loss of the personnel and records, rather than the buildings. I don't know you say this, I was more focused on the process as a whole on a macro scale. > i mean, "world peace" is generally concerned with preventing it from being destroyed in the first place. I never mentioned war in particular. Could be a solar flare, an asteroid, a plague (and look how we were prepared for this one).

riversflow 6y ago

World peace will only go so far if a huge solar storm hits us and we are not adequately prepared.

TeeMassive 6y ago

> it "just" takes some years and heaping piles of money to replace them. though probably more if you're trying to replace them all at once, as there aren't a lot of folks who make the equipment to rebuild the fabs. You can't buy an economy. You'll need a petrochemical industry for example for all the insulators and other substances that go into the making of chips and you'll need mines for precious metals or recycle them from scratch and of course an energy industry. Just those few examples are their own are giant economical pyramids on their own rights, and would be very hard to replace even if most relevant university graduates made it alive to this point. > sounds like you're more concerned about loss of the personnel and records, rather than the buildings. I don't know you say this, I was more focused on the process as a whole on a macro scale. > i mean, "world peace" is generally concerned with preventing it from being destroyed in the first place. I never mentioned war in particular. Could be a solar flare, an asteroid, a plague (and look how we were prepared for this one).