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A comment on ‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rates for N5. Parent comment

Re:‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rat... by gruez on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:59AM (#24271990)
> Hong Kong fell without a peep from the U.S.

HK isn't a sovereign nation, Taiwan is. Also, having the US go in would be questionable. Wasn't the "one country, two systems" treaty an agreement between uk and china?

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Re:‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rat... by ip26 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:06AM (#24272084)
Taiwan is

Depends on who you ask.

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Re:‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rat... by gruez on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:59AM (#24272677)
>Depends on who you ask.

I mean, you can make the same argument with "the earth is flat... depends on who you ask". At least when it comes to the Taiwan (the island) I don't think there's any doubt that the ROC government has a monopoly on violence there. They also have their own military, police force, and collect their own taxes, independent of the PRC.

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Re:‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rat... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:16PM (#24275608)
Best I can recall, it was formed by Nationalists, partly Nazy government that had to flee after like a third Communist uprising when they relised there were more revolting peasants than they had bullets.

Obvious a lot of time has passed, but it's not quite flat earth. It just requires a sence of 'historical justice', however unhelpfull

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Re:‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rat... by cesaref on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:27AM (#24272327)
I know i'm old fashioned, but I think the only relevant people to ask are the taiwanese
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Re:‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rat... by rfoo on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:50AM (#24272576)
It's a little bit more complicated than "ask Taiwanese", depends on whether you ask the indigenous people or those coming from mainland ~1949 and their descendants, you may get different answers.

I don't think you mean Native Taiwanese (as in Native Americans) here, so I have to say people are not unanimous about whether "Taiwan" is a sovereign nation.

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Re:‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rat... by kmonsen on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @12:37PM (#24273157)
I guess in that case Catalonia is also a sovereign nation?
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