i am still peeved at Toshiba over that. I know that the companies I listed are not cutting edge, but the article said chips, not leading technology chips. A lot of those chips made with older technology are very much needed in the chain. And of course tsmc is building facilities here right now. I consider the question of when we can have 1nm tech separate, and I don’t think we always have to have the fastest in quantity all of the time. tsmc will always have their best stuff in Taiwan, so that we have a reason to protect them. If the Netherlands has the best for now. So be it.
The Netherlands don’t actually fab cutting edge chips themselves, they just make the lithography machines that everyone who *does* make those chips use to do so.
And yes, those older tech chips are needed, but we are entering an era where both consumer and military applications *need* those cutting or bleeding edge chips. There are a lot of things like self-flying drones that literally cannot work without advanced chips as the power consumption or heat generation is too high, or the performance you get when you meet the first two is just too low.
A secure and complete supply chain for computer chip production is every bit as important to national security today as having a steel industry was in WW2. And we have a bunch of people here on FR and in the government who just do not understand that and haven’t understood it for decades.
tsmc will always have their best stuff in Taiwan
How many CCP moles are embedded in that company? You really can’t rely on Taiwan.