Wednesday, July 7th 2021
TSMC Under U.S. Pressure Over China Fab Expansion
TSMC is under pressure from the U.S. to reconsider its plans to expand its facilities in mainland China, sources close to the matter told DigiTimes. TSMC currently operates a fab near Shanghai, and one in Nanjing, which it had originally planned to expand, meeting resistance from the U.S. It is not known if this is government (diplomatic) pressure or by U.S. based customers of TSMC., but is likely a combination of the two. The same forces were possibly behind getting TSMC to invest north of $3.5 billion toward a facility in Arizona with six more "Gigafabs" being planned in the southwestern state. U.S. hand-holding in TSMC's policymaking could be part of a strategy to deny cutting-edge silicon fabrication technology to China (PRC), and to help TSMC expand its manufacturing in safer regions as the security situation across the Taiwan strait continues to deteriorate. TSMC, specifically western tech companies' dependence on it, makes it a soft target on the island, and a bargaining chip to deter western military intervention.
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DigiTimes
77 Comments on TSMC Under U.S. Pressure Over China Fab Expansion
Safer Regions don't make me laugh we all know the likes of a few 3 letter U.S. organisations that'll be proposing that TSMC poke a little backdoor here or there in chips they send to China
Expected can of worms
Did not disappoint
@bogmali I feel this article has run its course and should be locked
As for that second phrase, US could also do the same. Find a legal reason, like how it almost destroyed Huawei and take over TSMC's fabs in a few years from now. It will be more difficult to attack a Taiwanese company, much more difficult to justify it, but not impossible. If TSMC manage to get a lead over US companies in manufacturing that it is impossible for US companies to cover, US could see TSMC as a problem.Do Syrians get a refund for destroying their country by supporting a civil war for geopolitical reasons? How about Kurds who payed and got nothing because Turkey is a more important ally?
And here I stop this kind of posts. Sorry about this kind of posts.
Find another source than Wikipedia and you'll see that's not the truth.
Also, if by ruling, it means that one nation signs a piece of paper that says that they do so, but no-one else, including the nation supposedly being ruled, agrees, does it really mean anything?
And I thought ruling meant you were in charge of the entire territory, not a small trading outpost, as is that was the case, then Sweden ruled the USA at one point in time.
At best, the Qing dynasty managed to occupy parts of Taiwan for seven years.
Recent article with some irrelevant waffle in it.
thediplomat.com/2021/06/was-taiwan-ever-really-a-part-of-china/
Taiwan isn't part of most international organisations, as xina says no, so no, those rules so not apply, even less so as xina sees Taiwan as a renegade province. As such, it and all its people and business belongs to xina. As such, they need not justify anything, as it's the internal business of xina and anyone if a different opinion has no say.
But oh well, you have your fun.
Also, according to this, parts of Taiwan was under Rule
www.taiwan.gov.tw/content_3.php
I'm uncertain how much of that land was of Taiwan total