Comment on TSMC suspended shipments to China firm after chip found on Huawei processor, sources say
misk@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoThey could ignore sanctions but that would mean they’d be sanctioned as well. Pretty much every manufacturer, financial institution has to obey laws in multiple jurisdictions if they want to operate within those markets.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Would the USA actually sanction TSMC though? Wouldn’t that be a massive blow to companies like apple?
Entropywins@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They need asml lithography equipment without which they are a nothing burger and to get that you need to play nice with US and EU.
misk@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Lithography but also clients like Apple, Intel, AMD and so on. Without them they’re also toast. World today is so interconnected that at large scale it’s really hard not to be compliant with sanctions.
jaxxed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You are forgetting that Taiwan has an interest in supporting the U.S. led sanctions.
trolololol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People talk about Apple only but every competitive chip designer (which Intel is not) depends on TSMC, so they all get set back.
But TSMC gets to close, and what’s more dangerous for the political stability of Taiwan is that since they don’t have oil they lose West military protection.