2 pointsby swolpers3 hours ago2 comments
  • DivingForGoldan hour ago
    "AI has a physical dependency in Taiwan that can be easily destroyed by Chinese missiles, even without an invasion" ?

    Arguably false. Why do you think the US has encouraged TSMC foundries, now inside Arizona ? It's obviously to protect against the scenario that China takes Taiwan. In that case, give it 6 months or less for US TSMC foundries to produce the finest. China taking Taiwan will likely not result in the CCP getting any technology, certainly Taiwanese have "contingency plans" to vaporize all tech in the event they are invaded.

  • sylware3 hours ago
    There are some near ready foundries in the US and in EU, not to mention South Korea. It would take a few years to catch up of course.

    What I worry more about is the full lock-in of TSMC production capacity by nvidia/apple/amd/etc for their chips on their latest and greatest silicon process (aka the best in the world). There is 'no space' for performant large RISC-V implementations or other alternative (and it will require several iterations and mistakes will be made)