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A comment on US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross Straits Invasion. Parent comment

Re:US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross S... by est on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:00AM (#26383263)
> Just blow up enough of the electrical infrastructure to keep the power off for a good long while

See: https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=2766

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Re:US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross S... by sterlind on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:07AM (#26383608)
Wow. TSMC currently consumes 5% of all power in Taiwan, and is predicted to consume up to 10% in the future, apparently because of EUV. Losing that would be catastrophic for the West, but doesn't China use TSMC chips too? Does the mainland even have a fab that could compete?
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Re:US-China War over Taiwan: All Measures Short of a Cross S... by est on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:16AM (#26383654)
> but doesn't China use TSMC chips too? Does the mainland even have a fab that could compete?

China had alternative, slower but 100% domestic produced chips. See https://www.anandtech.com/show/15493/hygon-dhyana-reviewed-c...

Also SMIC directly competes with TSMC and was engineered by the basically the same team of TSMC people.

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