Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin...
by acomjean on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:08PM
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Their cpus are manufactured in Taiwan, which is kinda China. Those bleeding edge components are important to excellent performance of their products.
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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin...
by ethbr0 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:27PM
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I'm sure China would be quite happy if Taiwan was even kinda China.
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin...
by SllX on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:04PM
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Taiwan is an independent nation.
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin...
by mikehotel on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:20PM
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“The United States does not support Taiwan independence.”
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin...
by SllX on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:29AM
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The State Department can get bent on this one.
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin...
by dublin on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:45PM
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I'm sure China knows that if they do ever actually invade Taiwan, then there will be hundreds of agents, if not outright military actions, to destroy or sabotage the critical parts of Taiwanese industry rather than let them fall into the hands of the CCP. (For instance, I can't imagine any of the key ASML machines would survive without being quite thoroughly destroyed by thermite to keep their secrets from falling into Chinese hands.)
This would nearly completely cripple the world's tech economy for a decade, but that is far better then becoming vassals to CCP tyranny.
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin...
by vineyardmike on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:31PM
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I heard rumors that the latest TSMC factories have a government-controlled self-destruct feature for this reason.