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Re:The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC by mattnewton on Monday January 17, 2022 @09:31PM (#29974290)
The problem is that they would also be useless to NATO countries.
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Re:The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC by drsnow on Monday January 17, 2022 @09:49PM (#29974420)
I think it's safe to assume there's a plan to exfiltrate the critical information to reproduce what TSMC has accomplished in Taiwan
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Re:The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC by anamax on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:02AM (#29975674)
An interesting amount of that knowledge is inside various folks' heads.
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Re:The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC by AussieWog93 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:41AM (#29976996)
There are methods to exfiltrate that knowledge too.
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Re:The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC by lotsofpulp on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @08:22AM (#29978617)
Are there? The US could not even exfiltrate the knowledge of where Osama Bin Laden was.
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Re:The money printing press that is chip maker TSMC by chii on Monday January 17, 2022 @10:30PM (#29974714)
i doubt information is the only critical component in reproducing the plants.

Critical equipment, which are difficult to manufacture, is a huge part of the equation.

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