US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia

Re:US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia by t324oi234j3434 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @06:02AM (#38529390)

I'd bet even faster.

The West pretends that Taiwan is another country with another totally alien set of people who hate the mainland. However, that is not really the case. I imagine it's fairly easy to poach TSMC personnel, who well now realize that Taiwanese semi-conductor industry is going to be ruined by American meddling in the coming decade (much like they did of Japan's).

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Re:US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia by DeathArrow on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @06:17AM (#38529491)

> I imagine it's fairly easy to poach TSMC personnel

They already did that. They offered some TSMC engineers much better payment and they built 5nm and 7nm fab processes for SMIC using DUV instead of EUV. :)

To add insult to the injury, Huawei released their Kirin 9000s CPU during US secretary of commerce visit in China.

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Re:US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia by maxglute on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @06:28AM (#38529570)

I think TW banned semi workers from working in PRC for triple pay, after banning TW recruiters from helping PRC poach TW workers didn't work. Meanwhile, TW semi workers still underpaid and overworked.

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Re:US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia by hunglee2 on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:51AM (#38541430)

this is true, there is an 'export restriction' for TW workers going to the mainland in certain industries, especially SC

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