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> The loss of Taiwan and with it TSMC — the thinking goes — would result in a global tech meltdown. The irony is that for most of the tech industry TSMC is una
by weebull 2y ago
> The loss of Taiwan and with it TSMC — the thinking goes — would result in a global tech meltdown.
The irony is that for most of the tech industry TSMC is unavailable. Nvidia, Apple and AMD have booked all the manufacturing slots for the foreseeable future. It's been this way since 2020.
Yes, their loss would have a huge effect, but many are having to cope with that situation today.
- CoastalCoder 2y ago> Yes, their loss would have a huge effect, but many are having to cope with that situation today. I suspect they'd be in much worse shape if Taiwan were invaded. First, they'd find themselves competing with current TSMC customers for the non-TSMC foundries. And second, an invasion of Taiwan could lead to a full out war with China, which might mean the non-Taiwanese fabs have their production priorities overridden by the warring governments.
- mint2 2y agoNot to mention, the other fabs would be high priority missile targets.
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- bevekspldnw 2y agoExactly, flatten those in the first five minutes and that “shield” is gone.
- Dalewyn 2y ago>an invasion of Taiwan could lead to a full out war with China, What would be the casus belli? Quite literally no country of even remote significance on the world stage (aside from the Holy See) officially recognizes Taiwan.[1] By what pretext would a country declare war against China as concerns Taiwan? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Taiwan#Types_of_relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Taiwan#Ty...
- CoastalCoder 2y agoYou may be right that such a war is somewhat or entirely unlikely. I'm not remotely qualified to predict that. Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned it.
- kelipso 2y agoPlease. Casus belli doesn’t matter these days. You just do enough propaganda with a number of justifications and control the news coming from the other side until the poll numbers look right.
- oldpersonintx 2y agoCasus Belli is now translated into "America could win". There is no clear Casus Belli with China. Last time the US faced China in combat was Chosin Reservoir...maybe the worst ass-kicking the US has ever received. No way voters are going to support a President who oversees delivery of 50k dead US soldiers just to save a fab.
- DonHopkins 2y agoYou're suffering from Xi Jinping Derangement Syndrome.
- menacingly 2y agoSo, China aggressively threatens everyone who recognizes Taiwan for decades, and the resultant lack of recognition for Taiwan is used to delegitimize attempts to defend them?
- jcranmer 2y agoThe US has a security relationship with Taiwan that may or may not be a defensive alliance guarantee. Regardless of how ironclad that guarantee is, there is substantial likelihood of significant military supply to Taiwan in the event of a China-Taiwan conflict. Should China decide to strike that supply chain--whether by accident or on purpose--the result would be US military casualties, and that would have a strong likelihood of precipitating outright war.
- pama 2y agoUnless the date in the comment is wrong and I missed some important update in 2024, this statement is not correct. Apple Books a chunk of the latest tech for a period of many months every now and then but there is a long tail of companies using TSMC for shorter projects and for using earlier tech.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoTSMC has a ton of lagging node manufacturing on Taiwan too though. If that was destroyed itd be as big or even a bigger problem