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Maybe because the M2 is a TMSC made unit made in TW and there is no way Tim Apple is going to not be selling to the biggest market.. How is he going to make 5
by samstave 4y ago
Maybe because the M2 is a TMSC made unit made in TW and there is no way Tim Apple is going to not be selling to the biggest market..
How is he going to make 5 Trillion in ShareHolder Value by 2025?
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We don't need to "officially" recognize Taiwan when many congress folks invest heavily there. Don't unplug the circuit that feeds you.
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4428/text?r=4&s=1 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/442...
Whit the the new delegation headed to Taiwan, they probably do not want to upset the Logan Act:
The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized American citizens with foreign governments having a dispute with the United States. The intent behind the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the government’s position.[2] The Act was passed following George Logan’s unauthorized negotiations with France in 1798, and was signed into law by President John Adams on January 30, 1799. The Act was amended in 1994, changing the penalty for violation from “fined $5,000” to “fined under this title”; this appears to be the only amendment to the Act.[2] Violation of the Logan Act is a felony.
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If we officially recognize Taiwan - then we are in dispute with China - and that fucks up a lot of things.
Its also why certain investments are funneled through Proxy Countries, such has been done recently through Ukraine...
- TheRealPomax 4y ago> We don't need to "officially" recognize Taiwan when many congress folks invest heavily there. Fun fact about laws: yeah you do. You can only litigate the letter of the law, not the spirit. If the law says "you cannot export to China" and the fabs are in Taiwan, then either NVidia's breaking the law by default, or they're not and the US officially recognizes Taiwan as not being part of China. Whether that's what they intentionally went for when they wrote this: preeeetty sure it wasn't, but they just created a potentially massive legal situation.
- IanCal 4y agoHow is this not just solved by issuing Nvidia a license?
- km3r 4y agoYou can absolutely write law that says "you can only sell to the Taiwan region of china". Not recognizing independence but still restricting sales to mainland china.
- dwheeler 4y agoLaws and regulations can be written to work with such situations, e.g., to treat different regions differently. It's not even terribly unusual. I haven't checked into this particular case, but this situation is so long-standing that I suspect things have had plenty of time to get worked out.