THANK GOD THE MBAS ARE IN CHARGE
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The US is scared of the impending doom created when China invades Taiwan and takes over all chip production in a matter of a few months.
Nothing the US has can stop that when it starts, there can only be a deterrent, but that works only so far...
On the other hand it sees a solution to just hamfistedly claim 50% of the chipproduction to be local in the USA, easily forgetting the work ethics of the average American don't fit for that scenario, let alone how the government is wrecking the needed education for a decade or two to come at least...
The odds of China invading Taiwan successfully and a single chip fab still functioning or being recoverable is 0%.
Currently the US needs an independent Taiwan because that's where all their chips come from. Makes sense for the US to move production to the US where it's less vulnerable to Chinese takeover, but that also means that the US won't need Taiwan to be independent anymore.
Bingo.
Rely on the US, get extorted. The US has no friends, only colonies to exploit and pillage
Suddenly reunification with the mainland was on the table after years of tactfully avoiding the topic.
Whose asset is this trump character, anyway?
This is all about covering his own blunder.
He's realized his tarrifs aren't doing much to bring manufacturing to the USA, so now he'll threaten to abandon his allies instead if they don't prop up his idiotic economic policy.
I've been lucky enough to see the real deal in deposition layering testing and research for chip making. From clean-room methods stricter than bio and radiological test lab standards to seeing the wafers with a shimmer even more gorgeous than diamonds to me. It's so far beyond
We just ain't going to manage to make that a nation-wide mainstay. We might be able to have started to approach the technical side of things if investments and education were started in the early 90s, but our culture just isn't up to snuff to keep it going. So much of a society's culture bleeds into business, and damn do they have it locked down where it needs to be.
Oh this isn't good.
They prop up all of our biggest companies. World war III could sneakily start in the south China sea. Over this.
China is already making moves to go to war with Taiwan. It's likely going to start in 2026.
What is it about these chips that makes them so special? Are they for something practical or are they for advanced weapons or AI? Why does a country need them so badly?
The silicon foundries in Taiwan are some of the most advanced in the world right now - they can make manufacture integrated circuits down to a 3nm process node. They're absolutely cutting-edge.
Basically, every phone or consumer electronics processor, memory same solid state storage chip, plus a ton of custom circuits are made there right now. This includes multi-GHz radios (WiFi, radar, sensing technologies, global navigation systems) and a ton of new MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) sensors for gyroscopes, accelerometers, compasses, barometric pressure, gas sensors...
The foundries in Taiwan are absolutely critical to worldwide supply chains and defense. There are rumors that the Taiwan foundries are wired with explosives as a deterrent to Chinese invasion - China wants the foundries but Taiwan will try to deny them if they invade.
How long has this been the case? And do all of those devices need chips with 3nm process nodes? Why can't a slightly inferior chip be used?
You can use an inferior chip, but the few fabs that are out there are many generations behind. Suddenly your cruise missile has reduce accuracy, or range, or detection avoidance etc. Your radar doesn't detect as well etc.
The fab Taiwan built in the US is 2-3 generations behind I believe, intentionally, so the most cutting edge stuff was still theirs.
Samsung is the next closest at 7nm if I'm seeing things right and it gets much worse from there and it quickly goes to the teens or higher.
Currently they make the best ones and are basically the only ones that can. These chips go into most cutting edge electronics such as AI
So they're not really needed by the average person
Taiwan is a major center for chip manufactoring and development. Being a vital supplier for the U.S., Taiwan was protected by the U.S. as far as possible without openly disagreeing with mainland (communist) China. One could argue that Taiwan's chip industry has essentially protected the island from being invaded or nuked by mainland China. Without their advantage in chips and implied cover by the U.S. military, Taiwan would be under direct threat by mainland China "unification".
Didn't answer my question bot
LOL. That's not even a real ask. It's like if I walked into work tomorrow and asked for a 200% raise.