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Re:Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production by paganel on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:20PM (#27123000)
> Companies tend to do what is in their economic interest to do

It will be in their economic interest when the PLA will show up at TSMC's door. Of course, that won't probably happen in the next few quarters, so on that you are correct, it's not in their short economic interest.

What these companies are basically doing is asking the US government to subsidise the costs incurred by geo-politics.

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Re:Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production by spaced-out on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:32PM (#27123139)
>It will be in their economic interest when the PLA will show up at TSMC's door.

Not necessarily, maybe those companies can just make a deal with the CCP to keep access to TSMC's fabs.

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Re:Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production by KptMarchewa on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:54PM (#27124053)
Taiwan Army can use scorched earth tactics to make sure that it does not happen.
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