alt Hacker Newsisn't it risky to build this in a seismically active region? wouldn't somewhere that has almost no history of earthquakes like korea be better?
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I believe Koreans would find being colonized again to be at least a little bit objectionable.
Hokkaido is significantly safer compared to Honshu. It does still experience quakes, but it is at least not directly on major fault lines.
Japan is quite adept at building structures resistant to earthquakes and tsunami. I'd be very surprised if the designers and architects of this endeavor are unaware of the issues.
Japan doesn't have the option of building in Korea? Not if it wants to retain sovereign control.
Given Korea hasn’t been a Japanese colony since the War, and they want to build in their territory, options are limited.
Why would the Japanese government back a company to build chips...in Korea?
TSMC is in a seismically active region
you have silicon valley right by the San Andreas fault line..
It would be darkly amusing if all chips come from either politically unstable Taiwan or seismically unstable Hokkaido.
But then Japan seems amazing at producing all sorts of other delicate things, despite all of its soil being basically built out of earthquakes, so I guess they have this bit figured out.