All they have to do is to make it good enough and cheap enough to commodotize the product which will flood the market and push the most advanced but expensive tech to the side.
Gigasser@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
theneverfox@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Well, unless they invaded Taiwan…
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.