<story><title>TSMC R&amp;D chief: There’s light at the end of the chip shortage</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tsmc-exec-on-chip-shortage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zionic</author><text>&amp;gt; We need to protect Taiwan because they are a democracy.&lt;p&gt;There is no “we” anymore. No way in hell am I sending my kids, or allowing my kids to be drafted to fight for this stupid ass country.&lt;p&gt;I don’t like Russia either, before anyone accuses me of that.&lt;p&gt;I’m just pointing out that your collective interest delusion no longer exists, I feel no connection to the country I was born in. Fighting to protect its decaying corrupt corpse is the last thing I’ll do.</text></item><item><author>rnk</author><text>We need to protect Taiwan because they are a democracy. The fact that the most important IC manufacturer is there is important but less important than the humans who live in Taiwan. I strongly believe the US plan for &amp;quot;strategic ambiguity&amp;quot; w&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;t Taiwan, which is basically lack of clarity over will the us go to war to help protect Taiwan from China - is stupid. China will attack sooner or later.&lt;p&gt;Democratic countries need to bond together so the current two powerful authoritarian dystopian dictatorships as well as any future ones are not able to destroy them. You don&amp;#x27;t have a right to destroy my country (looking at China and Russia) because you don&amp;#x27;t like the fact that we are democratic.</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>This is absolutely the lens we need to view the Ukranian crisis through. It&amp;#x27;s actually quite surprising that Europe has acted so strongly and unanimously in their condemnation of Russia given that they &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; need Russian gas to heat their homes. Sure, they haven&amp;#x27;t literally turned off the gas because they can&amp;#x27;t, but they&amp;#x27;ve done everything but. It&amp;#x27;s up to Russia at this point but they absolutely can turn off that gas, and it has been suggested that they were limiting exports for the last 6 months to make sure Europe didn&amp;#x27;t have any stockpiles to weather an event like this.&lt;p&gt;I think recent events send a message to China that Western countries are perfectly willing to act against their own interests purely to punish a country that steps out of line. The whole of western Europe will suffer to punish Russia in this conflict, but the conflict has taken a situation where countries were semi-committed and made them fully committed. Germany&amp;#x27;s stance now, would&amp;#x27;ve been unthinkable 1 month ago. It highlights how easy it is to push countries away.</text></item><item><author>ohazi</author><text>If we manage to get through this chip shortage and then China decides to invade Taiwan and we lose TSMC, I&amp;#x27;m gonna fucking lose it. Everything feels so fragile right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xinniethepooh</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s no &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; because exactly your attitude lmao&lt;p&gt;You point out some red herring, claim it&amp;#x27;s the base case, and thus it proves the entire viewpoint that it&amp;#x27;s some &amp;quot;decaying corrupt corpse&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Compared to what, exactly?</text></comment>
<story><title>TSMC R&amp;D chief: There’s light at the end of the chip shortage</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tsmc-exec-on-chip-shortage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zionic</author><text>&amp;gt; We need to protect Taiwan because they are a democracy.&lt;p&gt;There is no “we” anymore. No way in hell am I sending my kids, or allowing my kids to be drafted to fight for this stupid ass country.&lt;p&gt;I don’t like Russia either, before anyone accuses me of that.&lt;p&gt;I’m just pointing out that your collective interest delusion no longer exists, I feel no connection to the country I was born in. Fighting to protect its decaying corrupt corpse is the last thing I’ll do.</text></item><item><author>rnk</author><text>We need to protect Taiwan because they are a democracy. The fact that the most important IC manufacturer is there is important but less important than the humans who live in Taiwan. I strongly believe the US plan for &amp;quot;strategic ambiguity&amp;quot; w&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;t Taiwan, which is basically lack of clarity over will the us go to war to help protect Taiwan from China - is stupid. China will attack sooner or later.&lt;p&gt;Democratic countries need to bond together so the current two powerful authoritarian dystopian dictatorships as well as any future ones are not able to destroy them. You don&amp;#x27;t have a right to destroy my country (looking at China and Russia) because you don&amp;#x27;t like the fact that we are democratic.</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>This is absolutely the lens we need to view the Ukranian crisis through. It&amp;#x27;s actually quite surprising that Europe has acted so strongly and unanimously in their condemnation of Russia given that they &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; need Russian gas to heat their homes. Sure, they haven&amp;#x27;t literally turned off the gas because they can&amp;#x27;t, but they&amp;#x27;ve done everything but. It&amp;#x27;s up to Russia at this point but they absolutely can turn off that gas, and it has been suggested that they were limiting exports for the last 6 months to make sure Europe didn&amp;#x27;t have any stockpiles to weather an event like this.&lt;p&gt;I think recent events send a message to China that Western countries are perfectly willing to act against their own interests purely to punish a country that steps out of line. The whole of western Europe will suffer to punish Russia in this conflict, but the conflict has taken a situation where countries were semi-committed and made them fully committed. Germany&amp;#x27;s stance now, would&amp;#x27;ve been unthinkable 1 month ago. It highlights how easy it is to push countries away.</text></item><item><author>ohazi</author><text>If we manage to get through this chip shortage and then China decides to invade Taiwan and we lose TSMC, I&amp;#x27;m gonna fucking lose it. Everything feels so fragile right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlindner</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure which country you&amp;#x27;re from but without Taiwan there is no Nvidia, Apple, or personal computers. Taiwan MUST be protected.</text></comment>