I'm doubt full capacity but I think there's no doubt the US will defend Taiwan with full force of military to protect those chips and this order is more evidence of that. They now seem to get how important AI is to future global order.
Yeah, and when China decides destroy their fabs with missiles. What are are you going to do then. In case you don't know, missile defense doesn't actually work well.
I don't think China will destroy the very thing they're trying to capture.
No, but trivial to shutdown fabs by destroying power infra down the chain. Capturing fabs that run on sanctionable supply chains to get look at hardware is secondary to PRC preserving fabs as barginning chip to restart semi production once countdown to western hightech industrial collapse starts ticking.
China would like the fabs but it's not the fabs that drives them to re-unify with Taiwan. That desire pre-dates the fabs by decades.
Well obviously if China wants to cripple the world's chip supply that would suck. They're not going to be allowed to control them though. Those fabs are rigged to be physically bricked if China is close to capturing TSMC anyways.
Is it possible to move fabs to bunkers? I know nothing about fabs so I know my question is probably naive.
Protection against a nuclear power is not that easy. If US plans to escalate it with full power against China, chips would be the least of my worries, than earth being fit for life after the war.
Probably yea
A Taiwanese war immediately means a naval blockade, the us won’t be able to lift it with any certainty. There is 0 interest in a hot war with China among Americans. I doubt we’ll see any American military action that could lead to a deployment other than naval.
> I doubt we’ll see any American military action that could lead to a deployment other than naval.
Err, you other points aside - that's how you'd contest a nail blockade, with an opposing naval force.
Outright sinking more than a couple Chinese naval vessels would lead to a conflict Americans aren’t interested in.
The US government is more than willing to go to war to keep the world's chip supply out of China's hands. They're also pretty good at ginning up support back home.
The Chinese would be the ones to sink American vessels first. You don't simply declare a blockade, you enforce it. By sinking American ships that don't accept your blockade.