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TSMC Taiwan says Destroying TSMC in a Chinese invasion is unnecessary

Kukumber 4y ago
That's what the CIA had planned [1], obviously that goes against the interest of Taiwanese, both for their industry and for their security Glad to see Taiwanese advocating for peace and not wanting to let the US destroy them The link in that article is down, here [2] [1] - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/taiwan-should-adopt-a-broken-nest-policy-and-destroy-tsmc-in-wake-of-any-chinese-invasion-suggests-us-military-paper/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/taiwan-should-ado... [2] - http://web.archive.org/web/20220107073316/https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/2021/podcast/jared-m-mckinney-and-peter-harris-broken-nest-deterring-china-from-invading-taiwan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jared-m-mckinney-and-peter-harris-broken-nest-deterring-china-from-invading-taiwan http://web.archive.org/web/20220107073316/https://ssi.armywa...
alvarezbjm-hn 4y ago
If I were a native Chinese planning to stay for life, I would support the poison pill. Falling prey to China would be the worst catastrophe, preventing it must take precedence. According to this article, TSMC factories wouldn't be able to continue producing, so why not destroy them anyways? It is not like China is looking at the foundries as the sole reason for invading Taiwan, but for sure they are important.
dirtyid 4y ago
Wonder what US strategist are thinking. After recent moves to hobble PRC semi industry who will find less and less access to TW semi, destroying TSMC disproportionately benefits PRC by setting/destroying back US high tech and cost trillions in knock on value. Recent NYT quote from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo: >“The U.S. was in an untenable position,” she told me in her office. “Today we are purchasing 100 percent of our advanced logic chips from abroad — 90 percent from TSMC in Taiwan and 10 percent from Samsung in Korea.” (That IS pretty crazy, but it IS true.) All the CHIPS act reshoring accounts for like 5-10% over the next 10 years. Seems to me US has every incentive to preserve TSMC fabs on TW that are dependent on US origin tech to operate. Versus PRC is rapidly building entire indigenous semi chain up to 14nm and has every reason to wipe out TSMC and close parity with west. The sanctions have shown US has unilateral leverage over semi during peace, but geography of where fabs/supply chain are (east asia) suggest PRC has the leverage during war. IMO preserving TSMC fabs is something in almost everyones interest. PRC will leverage to access high end chips, US can... not have her high tech industry destroyed, TW won't revert to being fruit farmers.

That's what the CIA had planned [1], obviously that goes against the interest of Taiwanese, both for their industry and for their security Glad to see Taiwanese advocating for peace and not wanting to let the US destroy them The link in that article is down, here [2] [1] - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/taiwan-should-adopt-a-broken-nest-policy-and-destroy-tsmc-in-wake-of-any-chinese-invasion-suggests-us-military-paper/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/taiwan-should-ado... [2] - http://web.archive.org/web/20220107073316/https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/2021/podcast/jared-m-mckinney-and-peter-harris-broken-nest-deterring-china-from-invading-taiwan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jared-m-mckinney-and-peter-harris-broken-nest-deterring-china-from-invading-taiwan http://web.archive.org/web/20220107073316/https://ssi.armywa...

alvarezbjm-hn 4y ago

If I were a native Chinese planning to stay for life, I would support the poison pill. Falling prey to China would be the worst catastrophe, preventing it must take precedence. According to this article, TSMC factories wouldn't be able to continue producing, so why not destroy them anyways? It is not like China is looking at the foundries as the sole reason for invading Taiwan, but for sure they are important.

dirtyid 4y ago

Wonder what US strategist are thinking. After recent moves to hobble PRC semi industry who will find less and less access to TW semi, destroying TSMC disproportionately benefits PRC by setting/destroying back US high tech and cost trillions in knock on value. Recent NYT quote from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo: >“The U.S. was in an untenable position,” she told me in her office. “Today we are purchasing 100 percent of our advanced logic chips from abroad — 90 percent from TSMC in Taiwan and 10 percent from Samsung in Korea.” (That IS pretty crazy, but it IS true.) All the CHIPS act reshoring accounts for like 5-10% over the next 10 years. Seems to me US has every incentive to preserve TSMC fabs on TW that are dependent on US origin tech to operate. Versus PRC is rapidly building entire indigenous semi chain up to 14nm and has every reason to wipe out TSMC and close parity with west. The sanctions have shown US has unilateral leverage over semi during peace, but geography of where fabs/supply chain are (east asia) suggest PRC has the leverage during war. IMO preserving TSMC fabs is something in almost everyones interest. PRC will leverage to access high end chips, US can... not have her high tech industry destroyed, TW won't revert to being fruit farmers.