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This seems like an exaggeration. What are the resulting catastrophe?
by hackernewds 4y ago
This seems like an exaggeration. What are the resulting catastrophe?
- samus 4y agoThe semiconductor industry would be set back a few decades because the main production facilities for the current node and many previous nodes would be gone. It's not just the equipment, but also the institutional knowledge about how to operate it best.
- WillPostForFood 4y agoIf China invaded Taiwan, and the world response was something like the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine (economic isolation), it would mean losing 500 billion dollars of imported products, and an uncountable loss of products that are dependent of that 500 billion. Look at what a small kink in chip supply is doing to car pricing and supply. Imagine instead of a kink in the supply chain, the supply goes to zero for several years. Now imagine that affecting thousands of products that are either wholly manufactured in China and Taiwan, or dependent on components made in China and Taiwan.
- jaywalk 4y agoThe number of chips within a five foot radius of you at this very moment that were manufactured by TSMC could easily be in the double digits. So imagine that all of the devices containing those chips are no longer able to be produced because nobody else can make the necessary chips.