• arin
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      4 months ago

      China already started their own chip fabs smic

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        4 months ago

        Which is still like three years behind the yields that TSMC achieves. If they thought they could take TSMC fabs with little effort and without consequence, they would. A killswitch negates their benefit in trying to take it, as another commenter said, preventing war.