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I wonder how many of the people that wouldn’t support it understand just how critical Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is. Not only critical to our national int
by djrogers 5y ago
I wonder how many of the people that wouldn’t support it understand just how critical Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is. Not only critical to our national interest, but to their day-to-day lives.
Look at what the current semiconductor shortage is doing to our internal manufacturing industry. I don’t think many Americans would be OK with a genocidal dictatorship holding a switch that could literally turn our economy off and on at will.
- maybelsyrup 5y agoLook not to be too cheeky, but we're okay with our own genocidal government (the US's). Wouldn't it be hypocritical to object to theirs?
- Notanothertoo 5y agoIn addition to the hypocrisy of the US gov, they have already held that switch for some time.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> how critical Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is This is a bad reason to go to war. It would be cheaper, to say nothing of cost fewer lives, to spend the tens of billions of dollar it would cost to replicate that capacity in America.
- jayparth 5y agoTSMC is worth $500B alone for a reason. To say it'd cost 10s of billions is a pretty crazy idea
- reidjs 5y agoAre you saying he was off by only one order of magnitude?
- adt2bt 5y agoAnd time. Say we even put $1T into replacing TSMC's capabilities stateside, it would take years, potentially decades, to get the people, knowledge, processes and technology.
- neartheplain 5y ago"Only" is doing some pretty heavy lifting there.
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- bigbillheck 5y agoWe could have had four of those for what we spent in Afghanistan.
- Ancapistani 5y agoWe're doing that. https://pr.tsmc.com/english/news/2033 https://pr.tsmc.com/english/news/2033
- dirtyid 5y ago>critical Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is This seems to be a popular talking point but also completely wrong. It's the least critical bits of the east asian semi supply chain, i.e. not essential to military and majority of established industries. Leading edge TSMC fabs gets destroyed, we lose a few nodes and some industries / gamers get set back 10 years. Start a broader war with PRC over TW, PRC will start hitting semi supply chains in Korean / Japan where US assets are and basically global semi infra get set back decades. The difference is a few high tech US industries collapsing versus essentially all of US high tech manufacturing / way of life collapsing for decades. Semi capability is so rare and concentrated in east Asia that PRC has the button on silicon mutually assured distruction. At the end of the day, US/west who has broad leadin IC loses much more than PRC in a semi MAD scenario.
- standardUser 5y agoChina can already cause a much economic harm as it pleases, when it pleases.