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Re:Qualcomm to give all its 3nm AP foundry work to TSMC inst... by mook on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:47AM (#30442305)
Why would Taiwan do that though? TSMC is the goosr that lays the golden egg: giving it up means America has much less reason to protect it.
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Re:Qualcomm to give all its 3nm AP foundry work to TSMC inst... by baq on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:55AM (#30442405)
it's enough for a government to say it won't buy chips manufactured abroad and presto, you have TSMC fabs being built on US ground as we speak; EU is close behind.
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Re:Qualcomm to give all its 3nm AP foundry work to TSMC inst... by dirtyid on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @12:23PM (#30443585)
Carrots and a lot of stick got TSMC to open a small fab in the US for sensitive supply chains. JP and EU are getting similarly marginal expansion. Reality is significant high-value strategic production will stay on the island in short/medium term because TSMC/TW will fight tooth and nail to prevent erosion of their silicon shield. There's no presto, everyone knows banning TSMC chips would kill trillions of western high tech industries.
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