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Semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan can remotely disable their chip-making machines in the event of a Chinese invasion. (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I would like to think we're further away from losing most modern technology than the world's only chip factory getting struck by lightning but the world is a fickle place I guess

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are something like a hundred chip factories across the world. TSMC itself has around 20 (mostly in Taiwan). One dying would definitely raise prices, but we won't be losing 'most modern technology'. And of course they'd have lightning cables; they aren't idiots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They develop IC on iPhones?!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yes, TSMC makes the chips for iPhones, as well as Snapdragon processors used by many (but not all) high-end Android phones. Samsung has their own factory in South Korea, and Huawei has theirs in mainland China. Further, low-end smartphones and most dumbphones use Unisoc chips that are made in China.

As for desktop computers, Intel has factories in the US, and AMD (GlobalFoundries) in Germany and Singapore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

they almost certainly have lightning prevention measures on those fab buildings. It'd be stupid for them not to, stupid to the tune of 10s of billions of dollars, and a global collapse of the chip market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

First of all, it's not the "world's only chip factory". Maybe for some bleeding edge node like 2 nm, but most photolithography systems use larger feature sizes. Secondly, lightnings haven't been an issue anymore for more than a hundred years now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

servers generally aren't a fan of high temperatures, and soot. So yeah, that would make sense.