Gigasser@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This seems about right. Progress was originally supposed to be 5-10 years. I’m not too sure on how effective these prototypes are. My guess is that their progress of EUV sources is quite far now, but that they’ll still need to have greater progress in regards to domestically created collector & debris mitigation systems, projection optics, mask blanks and other things.
theneverfox@pawb.social 23 hours ago
Well, unless they invaded Taiwan…
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
If Taiwan gets invaded they’ll just blow their chip fabs, they’ve said as much multiple times and presumably have a plan in place to do it at a moment’s notice.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
The US has said they will blow them up “for them”. TSMC is supportive of US puppetted militarist fascism in Taiwan, but has backfired a bit from Trump. Tarriffs on Taiwan, and more restrictions on Chinese operations. TSMC definitely wants to avoid war even if it likes politicians that hype up weapons gifts, but also independently subsidizes it.
War is going to depend on US dictated decoupling, that black market can’t get around. The fascists will have a hard time trusting US backing for the island, as Trump has been softer on China than Taiwan so far this year.
theneverfox@pawb.social 21 hours ago
Yeah, that’s what I mean
Doesn’t matter if China’s chips are economically viable if they’re the only ones making advanced chips…
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I mean, it kinda still does, but even if they did eventually invade, it wouldn’t necessarily make China the only game in town.