Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

Re:Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chi... by KeplerBoy on Monday November 24, 2025 @04:23AM (#46032024)

Isn't Taiwan also seismically active? They are reports of earthquakes affecting TSMC fabs in january 2025 and april 2024.

Apparently these were not huge blows to their fabs, otherwise we would be talking about that day-in-day-out, but there's always a risk of that happening.

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Re:Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chi... by zamadatix on Monday November 24, 2025 @07:24AM (#46033350)

Seems even more active, at least according to number of magnitude 6+ earthquakes since 1900 in the region https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=12.72608...

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Re:Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chi... by ehnto on Monday November 24, 2025 @08:26AM (#46033858)

Seems silly to be talking about this as if this is some kind of global consortium effort.

Japan is building Japan at semi conductor industry, for the benefit of itself, of course it is located in Japan.

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Re:Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chi... by KeplerBoy on Monday November 24, 2025 @08:30AM (#46033890)

Sure, Japan and Taiwan have no choice. They have to build on their seismically active islands or give up, which is not an option.

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