• Revan343@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    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

    • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      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.

        • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          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

          • Revan343@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            3 days ago

            I’m pretty sure thermite will render them inoperable; it tends to render most things inoperable

              • Revan343@lemmy.ca
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                3 days ago

                No, that’s potassium/kalium. If you want to brick them with with K, you probably want to start with potassium nitrate

                • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  2 days ago

                  No. that was, “This conversation is too stupid to continue.” I’ve worked in more than one orange sledghammer and thermite grenade facility and studied chemistry in university.

                  Once again, “K”.