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How important are Taiwan's chips really to our economy?

Vance said there would be a global depression without them -...
cheese-eating prole
  05/21/25
I can't even find that place on a map
Sepia piazza
  05/21/25
Chinese chips are several orders of magnitude more important...
Cowardly Twinkling Uncleanness
  05/21/25
Yeah the newest designs didn't exist a few years ago and mod...
cheese-eating prole
  05/21/25
lol.
mahogany vivacious theater stage boiling water
  05/21/25
...
Irradiated space
  05/21/25
The machines that make the chips aren't even from Taiwan
ruby national toaster
  05/21/25
we could just *gasp* make our own fucking chips
Hairless fat ankles
  05/21/25
Why aren't you doing that already?
Cowardly Twinkling Uncleanness
  05/21/25
*Studio audience laugh track plays*
Indigo Concupiscible Hospital Circlehead
  05/21/25
Here's an IMPORTANT chip from Taiwan surrounded by a bunch o...
Cowardly Twinkling Uncleanness
  05/21/25
extremely.
nubile hall legal warrant
  05/21/25
literally worth going to war over
Irradiated space
  05/21/25


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Date: May 21st, 2025 2:56 PM
Author: cheese-eating prole

Vance said there would be a global depression without them - true?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951403)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 2:57 PM
Author: Sepia piazza

I can't even find that place on a map

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951407)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 2:58 PM
Author: Cowardly Twinkling Uncleanness

Chinese chips are several orders of magnitude more important. TSMC gets attention because it makes the latest and greatest chips, but the bulk of the chips we use are old designs that don't require EUV lithography.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951410)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: cheese-eating prole

Yeah the newest designs didn't exist a few years ago and modern civilization was fine. Seems like flame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951415)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 3:06 PM
Author: mahogany vivacious theater stage boiling water

lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951435)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 6:48 PM
Author: Irradiated space



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951975)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: ruby national toaster

The machines that make the chips aren't even from Taiwan

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951417)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 3:03 PM
Author: Hairless fat ankles

we could just *gasp* make our own fucking chips

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951422)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 3:13 PM
Author: Cowardly Twinkling Uncleanness

Why aren't you doing that already?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951466)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 6:43 PM
Author: Indigo Concupiscible Hospital Circlehead

*Studio audience laugh track plays*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951968)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 3:17 PM
Author: Cowardly Twinkling Uncleanness

Here's an IMPORTANT chip from Taiwan surrounded by a bunch of other chips made by shitcons in the USA:

https://i.imgur.com/MgzjyLB.jpeg

The motherboard was also made by shitcons in the USA, but the capacitors were made in Detroit by union workers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951479)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 6:45 PM
Author: nubile hall legal warrant

extremely.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951969)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 6:48 PM
Author: Irradiated space

literally worth going to war over

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2#48951977)