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The real issues are climate change and biodiversity. If you only consider short-term crises, I don't see Taiwan being bigger than Ukraine. The loss of TSMC would impact tech industry, but it would be a loss of capacity rather than capability.

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It would be a huge loss in capabilities. The only place to build the most advanced process semiconductors we have (like the ones in NVIDIAs flagship AI cards) is at TSMC, in Taiwan. A lot of the equipment there is highly specialized and tightly controlled. Considering the EU is not exactly interested in US foreign policy right now, you now have to take into account that the most advanced EUV systems are made solely by a company in the Netherlands... you see how the US might never be able to replace the current state of the art chips.

It's possible foundries in SK or the new ones we're building will get there one day, but it wouldn't be for a while.

The best thing we could be doing “for Taiwan” right now is investing in American chip fabrication. I haven’t been following much, but how’s that TSMC factory in Arizona going?

Although ironically, this could actually be _bad_ for Taiwan itself, because reducing dependence on Taiwan means that defending it could become less critical.

Yeah this, could not care less about whatever crappy closed source AI system some megalomaniac CEO wants, or the iPhone 90, or whatever adware junk the “geniuses” of Silicon Valley are dreaming up.

We need to figure out how we’re gonna survive climate change and prevent the destruction of our only home and the creatures that inhabit it.

You are downvoted probably because people here care more about computers than destruction of nature.

You are the guy at the bottom here

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/368/486/52c...

and I'll go stand next to you.

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