There's not going to be any blood shed over reunification.
They think they can get stolen and copied US technology from China cheaper?
Maybe so, but it will always lag behind. By how much it will lag, I can’t say.
and more:
“..The US share of world semiconductor manufacturing has shrunk from an absolute monopoly in the 1960s to just 12% today, and only in mature nodes. President Joe Biden proposed and the US Senate passed a $52 billion subsidy for US semiconductor manufacturing.
But as Alan Patterson observed in a December 7 opinion piece for EE Times, a US electronics industry magazine published in the US, companies like Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Google who have lobbied for these subsidies spend money to buy back their stock rather than invest in chip-making...”
The Silicon has left Silicon Valley?
Taiwan is seeking more business ties with China? That seems contrary to what many outsiders would expect.
I thought Taiwan was worried about being taken over and reabsorbed into China. I guess not.
Samsung’s opening up a chip factory in Texas. It’ll be on-line in three years or so.
Taiwan is appeasing the bully with half its lunch money. Will the bully be satisfied?
The Chicoms aren’t going to invade Taiwan. They’ll just buy it. Like they are doing to the US.
Taiwan bending to China’s wishes. Shouldn’t surprise anyone. Of course, Taiwan is still willing to spill American blood to fight off any Chinese invasion, just not Taiwanese blood.
File this under, China will control Taiwan without firing a shot.
Here are the two key sentences in the article:
“The Taiwanese initiative responds to Washington’s extraterritorial sanctions on buyers of US fabricating equipment, imposed by then-president Donald Trump in May 2020. The US asserts the right to block sales of chips produced with US machines or intellectual property.”
The Taiwanese chipmakers are protecting themselves from a potential blockade by the U.S. of imported chips made with U.S. equipment. The sanctions were aimed at China but they could apply to any foreign chipmaker that uses U.S. equipment, including those in Taiwan.
Ping!
US sanctions helped end America as the world’s foremost power. Well done idiots.
There's not going to be any blood shed over reunification.
STOLEN elections have consequences.
“The US asserts the right to block sales of chips produced with US machines or intellectual property.”
I wonder how it has worked for the US automakers...
In the place I live you can only buy a Chinese car off the lot for MSRP.
The rest are suffering from inventory shortages due to a lack of chips.