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How important are Taiwan's chips really to our economy?

Vance said there would be a global depression without them -...
Unhinged Stimulating Old Irish Cottage Selfie
  05/21/25
I can't even find that place on a map
Puce stag film
  05/21/25
Chinese chips are several orders of magnitude more important...
pontificating painfully honest potus piazza
  05/21/25
Yeah the newest designs didn't exist a few years ago and mod...
Unhinged Stimulating Old Irish Cottage Selfie
  05/21/25
lol.
Aromatic filthy chad
  05/21/25
...
Adventurous locus
  05/21/25
The machines that make the chips aren't even from Taiwan
Rose Drunken Lodge
  05/21/25
we could just *gasp* make our own fucking chips
Boyish Fat Ankles
  05/21/25
Why aren't you doing that already?
pontificating painfully honest potus piazza
  05/21/25
*Studio audience laugh track plays*
Orange Tattoo
  05/21/25
Here's an IMPORTANT chip from Taiwan surrounded by a bunch o...
pontificating painfully honest potus piazza
  05/21/25
extremely.
Vermilion Locale
  05/21/25
literally worth going to war over
Adventurous locus
  05/21/25


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Date: May 21st, 2025 2:56 PM
Author: Unhinged Stimulating Old Irish Cottage Selfie

Vance said there would be a global depression without them - true?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2...id.#48951403)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 2:57 PM
Author: Puce stag film

I can't even find that place on a map

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2...id.#48951407)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 2:58 PM
Author: pontificating painfully honest potus piazza

Chinese chips are several orders of magnitude more important. TSMC gets attention because it makes the latest and greatest chips, but the bulk of the chips we use are old designs that don't require EUV lithography.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2...id.#48951410)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Unhinged Stimulating Old Irish Cottage Selfie

Yeah the newest designs didn't exist a few years ago and modern civilization was fine. Seems like flame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2...id.#48951415)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 3:06 PM
Author: Aromatic filthy chad

lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2...id.#48951435)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 6:48 PM
Author: Adventurous locus



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2...id.#48951975)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Rose Drunken Lodge

The machines that make the chips aren't even from Taiwan

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2...id.#48951417)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 3:03 PM
Author: Boyish Fat Ankles

we could just *gasp* make our own fucking chips

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2...id.#48951422)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 3:13 PM
Author: pontificating painfully honest potus piazza

Why aren't you doing that already?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2...id.#48951466)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 6:43 PM
Author: Orange Tattoo

*Studio audience laugh track plays*

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Date: May 21st, 2025 3:17 PM
Author: pontificating painfully honest potus piazza

Here's an IMPORTANT chip from Taiwan surrounded by a bunch of other chips made by shitcons in the USA:

https://i.imgur.com/MgzjyLB.jpeg

The motherboard was also made by shitcons in the USA, but the capacitors were made in Detroit by union workers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2...id.#48951479)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 6:45 PM
Author: Vermilion Locale

extremely.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2...id.#48951969)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 6:48 PM
Author: Adventurous locus

literally worth going to war over

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728520&forum_id=2...id.#48951977)