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Taiwan's TSMC begins mass production of 3-nanometer chips

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Good for Chinese province of Taiwan, good for China..

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Good stick to invest in as well. (And no don’t @me about Tesla)

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Stock is down 36% year to date and doesn’t reflect the actual value of the company nor its future potential.

good to see the increase in production capacity for these critical chips.

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Good for Chinese province of Taiwan, good for China..

Great for independent Taiwan, not so good for China as it needs chips like everyone else, and must get in line to buy them. Taiwan is not going to build plants in China, But the US, Japan and Europe are all going to get one. Way to go Taiwan!

The best way for China to get a province called Taiwan is to rename some province on the mainland.

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Poor TSMC, getting dismembered in broad daylight

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The reason for the pelossi visit during the last China scare! It wasn’t to annoy China it was to threaten tsmc if they didn’t build the plant in the US. Once this is done Taiwan will be thrown to the wolves. The US is such a good friend to its peons….

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Poor TSMC, getting dismembered in broad daylight

It used to be gold and ivory taken; now it’s the patented technologies. Dutch foreign trade minister Liesje Schreinemacher told the country’s parliament in November that ASML’s chip technology was a jewel in the country’s crown to be protected.

These chips are blocked from China over fears the China could develop new military capabilities beyond the power of Western armies to resist, but recent patent filings reveal that Huawei has made advances in a crucial method of chip manufacture and making it more possible the US banned company could eventually start making some of the smallest and most powerful microchips by itself.

The harder they try desperately to block China, the harder the Chinese brainies work. They will get to the dark side of the Moon and to Mars, build their own space stations and develop their own GPS system because of another U.S. ban, and now are able to build their own to manufacture the nanometers in the chips. Add Quantum computing and Fusion too.

The Huawei patent filing describes a way of using ultraviolet light to etch a computer chip’s inner workings into a piece of silicon. Using so-called extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) technology, transistors can be created that are just nanometres in size. The highly specialized technique has only ever been cracked by Netherlands-based company ASML.

I always thought China would crack this, and it would eventually happen, but not so fast. Eventually means it was thought that it would take time but they would would do this in two to three years or three to five years but December 2022!? Obviously the Chinese must have anticipated all the sanctions will come one day. This is liken to the South China Seas. They are anticipating an embargo and pouring money into their navy to prevent being embargoed. Build an alternative oil supply pipeline from Russia in case tankers are embargoed. Extract LNG from Xinjiang in case Russia falls and collapses. The Chinese are good at covering the bases.

So for the last post of 2022, I’ll just say that there are two ideas that are contradictory here in the JT community and naturally in the world. One is that the CCP is getting too powerful and must be stopped before they take over the world. (Peter14.) The other is that the CCP is hopelessly incompetent and is about to collapse (Desert Tortoise.)

So when it seemed like zero-COVID was working, some seemed really disappointed, but now that zero-COVID is finished they seem gleeful that the Chinese government changed policy and somehow hopeful that this will be the end of the CCP as this is evidence that the Chinese government is incompetent and the people are ready for a revolution, ignoring the fact that we are still in the middle of the pandemic and people aren’t dead yet or maybe because it’s the fake numbers reported.

You see this in the reaction to the lockdown. People protested the lockdowns. The government got rid of the lockdowns. It seems to me that this is an example of the government listening to the people and changing policy. But if you read between the lines, it seems that people are disappointed.

These two ideas are absolutely opposed to each other - incompetent yet can take over the world - but a lot of American policy makers appear to believe both, and honestly these beliefs tell you more about the United States than about China.

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I don't understand how a foreign country (USA in this case) can just come into Taiwan and literally dismantle a huge company. Not only are they going to kill off the island's economy, they're moving the company's plants to Arizona (labor? water?) of all places. And they have the nerve to ask Taiwanese engineers to move there (while paying them less - that part isn't publicized much).

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quercetum:

I see you're one of the few actually living on this planet. You make the exact points I've made before and yet always get downvoted. I never say China is perfect - they make mistakes but they learn from them. It's not a utopia but they have made great strides to combat poverty and build infrastructure - very few people outside know this and yet it's so easy to check. It is much better to work WITH China. Collaboration makes for a better place - a recent example saw Bangladeshi, Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Thai companies work together to build the Dhaka Metro and all its related infrastructure. But America's continuing thirst for world domination and hegemony means it will not stand any other country develop economically. The competition now just happens to be China, but it used to be Japan until USA hit Japan with the Plaza Accord, and one day it could be India. No country is allowed to compete and must remain subservient like Europe.

And does the west want China to get rid of covid restrictions or doesn't it? Can't seem to make up its mind.

The other is that the CCP is hopelessly incompetent and is about to collapse (Desert Tortoise.)

That reeks of Gordon Chang. This Asian-American 'expert' (probably bullied as a kid for being Asian) has predicted the collapse of China for the past two or so decades - he has to update himself every year. Only recently, he predicted China would continue with the covid zero-policy for another five years. Where do they get these 'experts'? I really love the fact that most of these experts don't know Chinese and have never been to China.. The sad thing is that simpletons and the uninformed keep listening to these guys. I guess the money pays well.

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Poor TSMC, getting dismembered in broad daylight

More of an expansion. They will be raking in the money as a result and the supply chain will be much more robust.

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China wont collapse bt will retain only real china

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