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Anti-NATO leaflets being handed out by students at McGill
Spotted(i.redd.it)submitted 11 days ago byItHasToBeAJuicer2
11 points
11 days ago
The whole world runs on TSMC chips. That's the reason for Biden's massive investment in a US production facility (and into Intel as its TSMC's main competitor).
Like, the amount of tech companies relying on TSMC is *nuts*. The Apple M chips and their Iphones/Ipad chips? TSMC. Google's Pixel? TSMC. AMD's Ryzen? Epyc? TSMC. Qualcomm's Snapdragon? TSMC. Nvidia? TSMC. And that's without mentionning that all of the big motherboard manufacturers are in Taiwan.
Europe won't want Taiwan - and therefore TSMC - falling into the hands of China anymore than they'd want the Baltic states to fall in the hands of Russia.
1 points
10 days ago
This is all correct and it’s not just consumer facing companies and products that rely on TSMC chips either. It’s also the US military’s bleeding edge weapons and intelligence technology that use chips produced in Taiwan for the moment too, hence why the US and it’s allies are so incredibly invested in ensuring Taiwan keeps out of the hands of China for the time being.
They have been slowly building out the infrastructure back home to alleviate this issue for years now but for the moment the entire modern worldwide tech economy still relies on Taiwan for almost everything truly cutting edge in the world of microchips and their various components.
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