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Re:AMD CEO Sees Chips from TSMC's US Plant Costing 5%-20% More by criley2 on Friday July 25, 2025 @07:05AM (#44681833)
I highly doubt it. Taiwan would destroy their own fabs before someone else did. But that's likely unnecessary, China would be unable to operate the fabs anyway and they've already stolen the relevant information and are trying to recreate it. TSMC would get their experts out of the country and their trade partners would simply stop supplying the vital materials.

And mututally assured destruction has nothing to do with the US destroying an industry in Taiwan. MAD specifically refers to the idea that superpowers cannot engage in nuclear war against one another without also being destroyed themselves, because of a Nuclear Triad.

For "Mutually Assured Destruction" to be in anyway applicable, you'd have to say that the second that the US destroyed "Chinese" fabs (Taiwan), China would destroy American fabs. Thus, the US would not attack China without risking itself. The US making targeted strikes on Taiwan is one sided destruction. But to be clear: MAD doctrine is specifically about fullscale thermonuclear war.

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Re:AMD CEO Sees Chips from TSMC's US Plant Costing 5%-20% More by almosthere on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:07AM (#44683295)
Yeah I think everyone understood that analogy you spelled out w/respect to MAD.
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Re:AMD CEO Sees Chips from TSMC's US Plant Costing 5%-20% More by criley2 on Saturday July 26, 2025 @10:30AM (#44694397)
China would not engage in nuclear escalation in response to the US striking Taiwan, and China does not otherwise possess the ability to strike the US homeland without incurring a nuclear response, so there is no mutually assured destruction with regards to semiconductor industry. In this hypothetical, the US would succeed in striking Taiwan and China would not escalate into nuclear war. But, the US would not strike Taiwan. Taiwan would destroy their own industry before that happened.
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