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That machinery requires constant maintenance hence no disruptions... > You can guess where I'm going with this System fragility?

• ggm 3y ago
  Yes. Both america and Europe want TSMC onshore. Oddly the US state winning the beauty contest has .. A water shortage!
  • mdp2021 3y ago
    > Oddly the US state winning the beauty contest has .. A water shortage! Just amazing. But on > Water shortages in Taiwan. That impacts production that I now re-read: to the best of my understanding, water is not simply an impacter on production: it is critical for the survival of the factories, its machinery will break in its absence. It is brought to the factories through trucks, not just the rivers.
  • ls612 3y ago
    Importantly very little water is actually consumed by the process of making semiconductors compared to how much water goes in, almost all of the water can be recycled or released back into the water cycle.