Does TSMC and Taiwan in general do much business at all with Mainland China? I would think, especially given recent geopolitical events and the significantly more concerning saber rattling by the PRC would preclude Taiwan giving the mainland anything really meaningful in terms of tech. AFAIK these new chips are coming out of SMIC, not TSMC, and considering it’s the PRC, it’s very possible that significant portions of the architecture were just reverse engineered.
wasnt the cpu they made just an intel with their company sticker on it? or did they actually managed to copy the machines required for building them
They would have used tmsc, China hasn’t caught up to that yet.
Does TSMC and Taiwan in general do much business at all with Mainland China? I would think, especially given recent geopolitical events and the significantly more concerning saber rattling by the PRC would preclude Taiwan giving the mainland anything really meaningful in terms of tech. AFAIK these new chips are coming out of SMIC, not TSMC, and considering it’s the PRC, it’s very possible that significant portions of the architecture were just reverse engineered.
China does purchase TSMC stuff
What I’m saying is that TSMC may outright halt sales to mainland China if the PRC gets much more bellicose in its threats to “reunify” with Taiwan.
It has its own instruction set architecture called LoongArch which in turn is based on MIPS, there is no relation to Intel’s x86
Edit: apparently the differences compared to MIPS are minor
I wonder how much proprietary technology was stolen by spies or paid assets.