alt Hacker News> And the US can’t realistically stop our well-funded homegrown AI Hardware startups from manufacturing with TSMC
See what happened to Russian Baikal production on TSMC
> And the US can’t realistically stop our well-funded homegrown AI Hardware startups from manufacturing with TSMC
See what happened to Russian Baikal production on TSMC
You mean because of the international sanctions that needed Taiwanese, British and Dutch support to be effective?
Or because of the revoked processor design licenses from the British company Arm (which is still UK headquartered… despite being NASDAQ listed and largely owned by Japanese firm SoftBank)?
Or perhaps you think the US could stop us using the 12nm fabs being built by TSMC on European soil? Or could stop us manufacturing RISC-V-based chips (Swiss-headquartered technology)?
The US is weak in digital-logic silicon fabrication and it knows it. That’s why it’s been so panicked about Intel and been trying to get TSMC to build fabs on US soil. They’re pouring tens of billions of dollars into trying to claw back ownership and control of it, but it’s not like Europe or China or others are standing still on it either.