philistine 17 hours ago
Massive news. One cannot shake the idea that Taiwan is playing all the cards it can to protect it from invasion. This is one; ingratiating itself within the core of American production.
aurareturn 13 hours ago
Why would this help Taiwan stave off China's advance? Arguably, this makes it more likely.
robertlagrant 11 hours ago
Yes that's my take as well. It might be TSMC trying to survive, and America trying to deprive themselves of a future war to defend TSMC or China's inevitable taking of TSMC.

I don't see how it helps Taiwan that much, but perhaps it makes it less attractive to China to take if TSMC can move.

eagleislandsong 2 hours ago
> perhaps it makes it less attractive to China

Taiwan's semiconductor industry is literally not even a factor that plays into China's wish to reunify. It won't make a lick of difference.

philistine 3 hours ago
It makes it more likely that the US responds in kind to an invasion.
gotschi_ 17 hours ago
Oh god no please, no

TSMC is a perfectly fine company. Let them do their thing intel!

bgnn 11 hours ago
TSMC has a lot if joint ventures like this. They are quite good at cross contaminating with their own fabs.
xeonmc 9 hours ago
Don’t you mean cross-pollination?
poisonborz 13 hours ago
This reminds me of Adventure Time where Finn (US Government) tells a goose and a fox to "now kiss":

https://youtu.be/XHgyD6UesJo?feature=shared&t=94

rayiner 17 hours ago
Is there like a book or podcast on Intel’s downfall? As a 90s kid it seems unthinkable to me Intel would be dethroned so swiftly.
morgango 2 hours ago
Stratechery does an OUTSTANDING job covering Intel, TSMC, and chips.

https://stratechery.com/?s=intel

They were talking about this in 2013

https://stratechery.com/2013/the-intel-opportunity/

bfrog 5 hours ago
Its happened before to any company that focuses too hard on short term profits and gets too comfortable.

Motorola GE Boeing

The list goes on…

Tempest1981 16 hours ago
Chip War by Chris Miller is a great read, although not specifically Intel.
maxnevermind 14 hours ago
asianometry on YT

also stratechery had few articles over the years

chneu 4 hours ago
Asianometry rules. As someone who works in semiconductor research and manufacturing, his videos are crazy good.
AbstractH24 16 hours ago
As another 90s kid feels like there is some lesson here on how few things last forever
Incipient 15 hours ago
I think it's a good example of why monopolies and vendor lock-ins are bad. Essentially when there IS choice, people will go to the better option, and the market leader, if they don't keep pace, people will move if they can.

It's when there is a huge exit barrier that companies get away with all sorts of garbage.

sexy_seedbox 14 hours ago
Microsoft is doing just fine, for now... maybe Copilot will be the beginning of the end for them.
ChrisArchitect 17 hours ago
pylotlight 17 hours ago
Is there not a more strict rule on dupes on this site, I've seen this numerous times.
ChrisArchitect 14 hours ago
Mostly, but some repeat offenders just don't seem to care.