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ASML is essential to chip manufacturing and it's european, what about EU restricting exports for security reasons if Taiwan do the same? I don't think chip fact
by albertopv 4y ago
ASML is essential to chip manufacturing and it's european, what about EU restricting exports for security reasons if Taiwan do the same?
I don't think chip factories will save Taiwan from chinese war, too much nationalism fueled by communist party and too weak economy in long term.
- dogma1138 4y agoThey very much serve as a trip wire defense. Taiwan famously has a scorched earth policy in regards to its own industry and they will physically destroy manufacturing plants and IP if they’ll ever be invaded. This is done to both deter China and to push the west put their support behind Taiwan. So there is zero analogy to ASML, Zeiss and a few other European players that are critical to the SC industry.
- albertopv 4y agoI think one day or another China will attack Taiwan anyway, scorched earth policy or west support (which to an island will be extremely difficult) are irrelevant, and so is Taiwan tech export policy.