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45764986 | 4 months ago

If a war rendered TSMC unavailable it would crash the global economy. There is no next best option.

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astrange|4 months ago

Samsung, Intel, SMIC are not incredibly far behind. TSMC is the best because we (the US and its customers) trust them more than its competitors and so fund its R&D and license them more exclusive technologies.

dontlaugh|4 months ago

SMIC in particular have made very quick progress. They’d probably match TSMC first in such a scenario.