US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says if China were to reunify with Taiwan, the US would be devastated due to the ramifications that would hold for the chips market.
I very much agree, and I think that TSMC is intentionally sabotaging the effort to build fabs in US because they realize that they won’t be needed once US has domestic fabs and trained personnel to operate them.
I wonder if they’re getting help from the PRC to do this since it’s in both of their interests to keep production in china. Reminds me of this anecdote I read about the KGB working with the CIA post dissolution to protect nuclear storages from the mob
I don’t think they really need any help there. It’s basically just a case of TSMC dragging their feet on everything. Amusingly, US incompetence is probably the most help here. From what I’ve read, the fab projects are all running massively over budget, there’s lack of skilled workers, etc.
I very much agree, and I think that TSMC is intentionally sabotaging the effort to build fabs in US because they realize that they won’t be needed once US has domestic fabs and trained personnel to operate them.
I wonder if they’re getting help from the PRC to do this since it’s in both of their interests to keep production in china. Reminds me of this anecdote I read about the KGB working with the CIA post dissolution to protect nuclear storages from the mob
I don’t think they really need any help there. It’s basically just a case of TSMC dragging their feet on everything. Amusingly, US incompetence is probably the most help here. From what I’ve read, the fab projects are all running massively over budget, there’s lack of skilled workers, etc.