Something else no one seems to be talking about. Nvidia’s chips are made in Taiwan by TSMC. What happens if China invades in the next year or two?
ASML will brick the machines and the chinese will only be able to look at them and try to copy them, which will take years, even assuming that chinese are already able to builld something like ASML’s machines, which I doubt (if they would be able they would not need Taiwan).
Taiwan will sabotage infrastructure in such a scenario, but this line of analysis seems nonsensical. Incorporate Taiwan in to China and the world loses the ability to manufacture some chips that the West are reliant on which further solidifies China’s influence globally. Others will be forced to buy technology from China, even if it’s not as advanced as what Taiwan sold before. Who else is manufacturing these things? Not America.
ASML will brick the machines and the chinese will only be able to look at them and try to copy them, which will take years, even assuming that chinese are already able to builld something like ASML’s machines, which I doubt (if they would be able they would not need Taiwan).
Taiwan will sabotage infrastructure in such a scenario, but this line of analysis seems nonsensical. Incorporate Taiwan in to China and the world loses the ability to manufacture some chips that the West are reliant on which further solidifies China’s influence globally. Others will be forced to buy technology from China, even if it’s not as advanced as what Taiwan sold before. Who else is manufacturing these things? Not America.
China doesn’t need Taiwan. America needs Taiwan.