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Uggh, what sad replies & lack of defense amid the replies for TSMC America! 'Lazy American worker!' yada yada.

Arizona fab has had top notch quality, out-pacing Taiwan's yields. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ts...

They're making 4nm chips too now, doing fine. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ts...

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Yes but they only achieved this because they brought in a lot of workers from Taiwan. Half the workers in the factory are brought in from Taiwan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/business/tsmc-phoenix-tai...

> Half the workers in the factory are brought in from Taiwan.

Thus depriving Taiwan of its much-needed intellectual and human capital to sustain its Silicon Shield defence strategy.

I frequently browse social media sites that are popular among the Taiwanese, and my impression is that they are generally unhappy about this state of affairs, seeing it as an act of economic coercion from the US.

> they are generally unhappy about this state of affairs, seeing it as an act of economic coercion from the US

Welcome to how rest of the world feels like now

I come from an Asian country; I'm no stranger to how the rest of the world (outside of Europe and Canada) has always perceived the US.

If you're European or Canadian, welcome to the club.

Don't worry, at the rate the US is squandering it's political, cultural and economic capitol, the rest of the world won't need to care what the US thinks in a few months.

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