[dudzik]

> The 14nm technology is at least three generations behind the latest advances available on the market but it is already the second-best technology that China’s chipmaking champion Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. owns.

Out of curiosity, what is the west gaining by restricting more advanced chips? China can build computers, smartphones, and weapons with the older generation of chips.

Is it to make their chip industry uncompetitive so we don’t become dependent on them?

[totalZero]

Those chips exclusively come from West-aligned geographies. China can't fully disentangle its supply chain from that of the West without building EUV-based technologies. Taiwan remains a shared pressure point so long as China needs TSMC.

This buys time for the West to build more defensible fab infrastructure before China attempts to take Taiwan or damage its fabs.

[yucky]

Knowing this means that time is ticking on their leverage, wouldn't this speed up the desire of China to take Taiwan?