I mean in the article they said it is expected to be produced before the end of this decade. TSMC is already planning to mass produce 3nm next year in 2023, it is very likely they would have something akin to 2nm by 2025 or 2026, still years ahead.

The fact is Japan has not been competitive in cutting edge chip fab for more than a decade and this is not something you can simply catch up by throwing money at it.

I fucking hate that they use a literal size measurement as a marketing term, when it’s not that size.

Intel is building a new fab near Columbus, OH. TSMC is building a new facility in Arizona - there is already an Intel fab in Chandler and I think Microchip has one in Tempe or Nogales. Samsung Austin fabs non-NAND/DRAM silicon.

The actual chip “packaging” - mounting it onto a substrate or encasing it in plastic and ceramic after attaching lead wires and pins/solder pads will still happen overseas - Intel does this in Costa Rica/Philippines, Samsung ships Austin silicon back to Korea or China, and China/Korea/Vietnam/Mexico/Philippines are were silicon is packaged.

Funny thing about ambulances….sometimes response times are extended especially in private service coverage. Not shocking that a relative was able to make it to the scene first.

They wouldnt dare touch large powers like the US or EU. They went full paper tiger about the Nancy Pelosi visit and the US just didn't care and did it anyway.

Taiwanese opinion on mainland China plummeted after they saw how Hong Kong was treated. Short term influence would be hard to gain

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The US would never stand for an actual blockade. It's too important to our interests and the USN would be leveling guns before Chinese ships even left port. If China so much as sneezed in the direction of an American commerical ship, Xi Jinping would find himself at the bottom of a crater before the end of the month.

Isn't the US in the process of building a giant manufacturing plant as well?

This feature also saved Stabler and co in Law and Order OC.

You said “walk him” dumb fuck. No point in arguing though, wouldn’t want to overtax your 2 brain cells

While a military invasion is unlikely I wonder what the likely hood of a Chinese blockade of Taiwan would be. I assume they will keep doing what they are already doing which is try to gain influence in Taiwan politically, but they messed that plan up after what they did to Hong Kong.

Yeah it's just not physically possible to get the equipment for a conventional ground invasion into Taiwan. They'd have to do some kind of absolutely balls to the wall combined arms assault that perfectly coordinates an airborne invasion behind the beach defenses with the amphibious invasion, but even that would still probably fail gloriously as all those unsupported paratroopers would just be ripped to shreds by inland defenses and never even reach the objective.

I love when marketing does stuff like "etymology doesn't real, sure the acronym/initialism used to have a meaning but we've retroactively altered it--now KFC doesn't stand for anything." Feels inherently dishonest. You want it to not stand for something, change the name from the characters that do have a history of standing for something. Connotations aren't a matter of explicit unilateral control.

The distance is irrelevant since it is an island. Russia hasn’t been able to take Ukraine and that’s a country right along their borders.

Trying to stage a D-Day invasion where each landing craft has thousands of soldiers in the age of accurate anti ship missiles is a death sentence.

Could it beeeee something more useful?? No I just need porn on my phone.

yea agreed, only way china gets Taiwan is through mutual destruction and a city of ashes at the end.

Just to be clear the nodes do refer to upgrades generally. So both speed and power usage gains. Just as things get closer to literally buildings with atoms the terminology falls apart. The small structures are 3D arrangements, so one measurement doesn't capture things anyway. Back when things were larger (like a decade ago) it made a lot more sense.

The chances that China can actually fully take over Taiwan are zero, but the chances that they can make a very stupid and doomed attempt at it and get millions of people on both sides killed before their inevitable defeat are much higher than zero.

Ooh I get by with a little help from IBM 🎶

It makes it harder diplomatically. It is and always has been militarily impossible due to geographic advantages. Anyone who says Taiwan is at any risk has no idea.

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both. easier cuz its so close to China but hard because the US has strong presence in the area. also they wouldn't want to risk actually fighting there and destroy the fabs.

You could always pick the person up? Just like a paramedic would have to? There’s very few situations driving someone to the ER yourself wouldn’t work for. There’s an exception to everything you fuckin boner.

whats this referring to? (genuinely dont know)