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Re:TSMC Gets $11.6B in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs by melling on Monday April 08, 2024 @07:49AM (#39968741)
I think you’re completely missing the point. This has nothing to do with moving the economic needle.

Having 90% of the most important semiconductors in the world made on an island 90 miles from China, which China wants to take back, is a bit of a problem.

What happens in a protracted skirmish that lasts a year, for example, where we can’t get any of those semiconductors.

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Re:TSMC Gets $11.6B in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs by etiam on Monday April 08, 2024 @08:47AM (#39969153)
> which China wants to take back

That's Beijing rhetoric.

They can't take it back because it's never been theirs. It would be more accurate to say they want to conquer the last remaining territory from the legitimate government of China and wipe out the main alternative to their hegemony.

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