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Likely this will come from multilateral government forced break up of TSMC if they get too big.
by mycall 5y ago
Likely this will come from multilateral government forced break up of TSMC if they get too big.
- bee_rider 5y agoI believe the government of Taiwan seen TSMC as existentially important -- the company is so valuable and unique that attacking them is essentially an attack on the world economy.
- squarefoot 5y agoWhat about a slow seemingly unarmed takeover? I think it's unlikely that the west would respond militarily, and that's probably what the Chinese govt counts on.
- bee_rider 5y agoI mean, I guess if China convinces Taiwan to peacefully rejoin them, that's their right, and it'd really be none of our business, right? It seems like it would be quite a stretch, though, given recent events in the area. In any case, such a change would be slow enough that we could switch over gracefully. Intel and Samsung are only a couple nodes behind, it would be expensive and annoying to change over but we'd manage it. I mean, go back 5 years, right? Computers have not massively changed since then.