• Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    “Why did graphics cards quadruple in price?”

    “You voted for Trump, who supported China steamrolling Taiwan, and now all of TSMCs foundries are bricked.”

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      6 days ago

      I wonder if it’s the US or Taiwan that donates the thermite grenades on the machines? If it’s the US Trump might just order them not to donate them as a gift to Xi.

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        3 days ago

        From what I’ve read, TSMC themselves take a hardline anti-China stance. If Chinese jackboots set foot in Taiwan, they’ll brick all of their foundries, or at least they say they will. Whether they actually will when push comes to shove is the bigger question

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          3 days ago

          I don’t think it’s an issue of bricking them. I think they thermite grenade them. It’s the optical technology that sets the ASML machines apart. They have to destroy the machines.

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              3 days ago

              Uh, no it isn’t. Bricking would be to render them inoperable. The machines need to be completely destroyed to keep the physical components of the optical path out of the hands of the Chinese. Thermite grenades on the optics and C4 to make sure