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Re:TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia by sofixa on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:01AM (#33814770)
> Because when Taiwan gets invaded the Fabs will be destroyed and/or made inoperable with no way to get them functional again.

You can't know that. Taiwan might plan to do this, which China surely anticipates, thus in any invasion plans would be made to stop it - paratroopers dropping on top to seize control quickly during the night, covert operatives swooping in to take out critical personnel in charge of sabotage, etc. etc.

> Is the USA going to sell their chips to China?

China is already working on improving their own industry and reducing reliance on imports.

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Re:TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia by midasz on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:35AM (#33814989)
China is decades behind and will stay so because the industry is not standing still either.

The chip machines need maintenance which the Chinese cannot do themselves. They don't have the knowledge. They'd need ASML (European company) for that.

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