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Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by chii on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @10:17AM (#41580028)
The difference between an oil field and a chip fab is that the equipment is more easily destroyed in a chip fab, vs a hole for an oil well. Not to mention that expertise in human capital required for chip fab is way higher than that of an oil field.

Even a successful invasion of taiwan guarantees either the people important to the fab will leave, and the equipment evacuated, or destroyed if unable to evacuate.

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Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by thimabi on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @06:28PM (#41586295)
As Saddam’s Iraq unfortunately proved when invading Kuwait, it is really easy to destroy oil fields, and much harder to clean up the damage. I can’t see much difference between that and destroying chip fabs.
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