Comment on TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoThey are. But Taiwan is prone to earthquakes as well and seem to handle them fine
Comment on TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoThey are. But Taiwan is prone to earthquakes as well and seem to handle them fine
errer@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Those fabs in Taiwan, even though they look like plain boxes from the outside, are really a wonder of human ingenuity. Each machine that’s sensitive to quakes is on a vibration isolation pedestal and that pedestal is seismically braced, from what I’ve read.
Not to mention every building in Taiwan is laced with explosives in case China ever attacks…