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Re:TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA by Barrin92 on Monday November 11, 2024 @04:08AM (#42105581)
>so it's the US without access to the cutting edge technology now?

no, but the newest cutting edge chips can't be manufactured in Arizona right now. US companies can still purchase them. It's a pretty obvious hedge against geopolitical insecurity and support from the US to keep the most advanced manufacturing capacity in Taiwan at any given time.

Re:TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA by mrtksn on Monday November 11, 2024 @04:12AM (#42105593)
It can be one tariff away from not letting US companies purchase them.
Re:TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA by cma on Monday November 11, 2024 @04:31AM (#42105672)
The US did the early EUV research (EUV LLC public private partnership), and acquired security veto power over ASML exports when transferring their portion of the tech to them, which TSMC can't do anything without.

Though I don't know that that lasts if we pull out of NATO...

Re:TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA by mrtksn on Monday November 11, 2024 @04:37AM (#42105720)
Right, currently I'm in Turkey and Turks like to brag about the civilizations who lived here and did the early research on maths, physics and medical sciences.

However, ASML is a EU company and at this very moment Trump is threatening EU and he said that EU is just as bad as China and will punish the Europeans. What if the relations between US and EU sour to the point that US is cut off from EUV machines and the Europeans cut a deal with Russia and China instead and get the energy and technology in EU? Anti-American forces are on rise in Europe.

Even if US manages to get everything it needs, it will be ~300M people and if Trump manages to alienate enough partners that will be total market size for the fabs and EUV tech as it wouldn't be the only one in town doing it. In these extremely large scale investment stuff, you need to be serving billions of people to make economical sense. Fabs in US with no access to the entire globe is a worse position than Fabs in China with no access to the entire globe simply by the 5x the population difference and with US adopting protectionist stance it doesn't seem like it would be China who doesn't have access to the global markets.

Re:TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA by user90131313 on Monday November 11, 2024 @04:49AM (#42105785)
EU and USA are Nato partners and also part of entire western. China and others are not.
Re:TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA by mrtksn on Monday November 11, 2024 @04:53AM (#42105807)
See, the new president-elect doesn't like Nato and already considered leaving it in his previous turn. US also demonstrated reluctance to fulfill its commitment. The established world order is a bust, ships are going around Africa because NATO is unable to secure passage through the Suez canal.
Re:TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA by talldayo on Friday November 15, 2024 @12:36PM (#42149007)
> What if the relations between US and EU sour to the point that US is cut off from EUV machines and the Europeans cut a deal with Russia and China instead

That will not happen. I am an American, I greatly dislike Trump, but fundamentally you have to understand that if Taiwan is a stable enough country to sell EUV machines to, America's money is good enough as well. There is just no chance the EU plays this card, even with NATO threatened as a whole - selling EUV to Russia and China would be actual industry suicide with no tangible benefits besides the scorched-earth policy.