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Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by whimsicalism on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:15PM (#41581801)
This seems extremely naïve about what it takes to run tsmc and how human capital works.
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Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by daedrdev on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:09PM (#41582561)
The US would probably also accept any Taiwanese immigrants fleeing invasion and Chinese occupation
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Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by whimsicalism on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @01:29PM (#41582878)
The notion that the US could quickly build up the same capability Taiwan has currently is absurd - as we are currently seeing.

Taiwan has significant leverage in this respect

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Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by EasyMark on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @08:12PM (#41587037)
Not a big problem if 100,000 of TSMC and other companies best engineers and scientists flee to the USA after a full on assault by the CCP army/navy
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