Re:TSMC Faces $70M Ransom Demand Following LockBit Cyberattack
by kortilla on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:04AM
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A billion dollars is not enough. The cutting edge tech for euv lithography isn’t even TSMCs.
TSMC does not have secrets that put them ahead. It’s all about the culture of operations efficiency and just being first to invest in actually implementing cutting edge tech.
Re:TSMC Faces $70M Ransom Demand Following LockBit Cyberattack
by bluGill on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:14AM
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The lithography is one of the technologies needed that if they can't get can bump this up to a lot more than a billion dollar. It can still be duplicated, but it will take more time and $$$.
Note that TSMC depends on other companies for various parts. Without those they need even more money and time to duplicate it all. There is nothing they are doing that you can't hire engineers to duplicate. They figured it out, so anyone could. However it isn't easy, we could be talking about hundreds of billions of dollars.