Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along

• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  they’ll just blow their chip fabs

  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.

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• theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨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…

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  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨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.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      China seems to be closest though, if they reach viable modern CPUs first…

      But realistically, I think China made a deal with the West to hold off on Taiwan until we have at least one modern chip fab working in the US and Europe

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      • justaman123@lemmy.world ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I tend to agree, but leadership has been super questionable as of late

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