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Intel isn’t that far behind. But it is dumb to depend on fabs in a country that is just one Chinese missile away from getting destroyed.

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That's most of the world, including the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...

So you don’t see the difference in the threat level of China bombing and invading Taiwan - which they already claim they own - and China attacking the US directly?

I don't, because I'm not in the US. But my comment was in reply to the actual text of the grandparent, not some imagined subtext between the lines.

So its just an imagined subtext that China that has been rabble rousing about taking over Taiwan is more likely to attack a tiny island nation right next to than attack the US?

And why would they when TSMC is in both China and the US in some fashion?

And Taiwan is forbidding TSMC from building their cutting edge fabs in the US…

https://www.asiafinancial.com/taiwan-says-tsmc-not-allowed-t...

That may have changed since then. But do you really want to depend on a foreign government for chip manufacturing?

As Taiwan should, it's their prerogative. People often think when global policy changes abruptly everything stops; in reality, the contrary is true: supply chains and demands shift.

For what it's worth, its TSMC's expertise in semiconductor manufacturing that has been loaned to the US, not bought, settled, and forgotten.

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