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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If China's already at 5nm, they're getting close. Smallest in use now is 3nm, I think.

This poses the question, how long until China can achieve its goals without Taiwan and TSMC?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I imagine they will be able to produce bleeding edge chips within a year or two tops. What's even more interesting though is that China is now producing chips on different substrates like gallium that don't have any equivalents in the west. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3323448/luo-weiwei-former-nasa-scientist-who-became-chinas-semiconductor-trump-card

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Idk about 2 years, but they can definitely do it by 2030.

    It took TSMC a while to get to that point if I'm not mistaken, so even with all the financial might of the CCP, I still doubt it will happen THAT quickly.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago

    Sure, it's hard to predict exact timing on these sort of things, so another 5 years is a plausible timeline. It does tend to be easier to do things the second time around. When you're doing something from scratch then you don't know what the right approach will be, you're going to have false starts, and so on. When the general idea has been proven, it's much easier to replicate because now you know what the general direction to pursue is.

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  • [+] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    I always saw it as TSMC potentially being a key reason for China to invade Taiwan so they get their hands on semiconductors, with this being LESS likely now, instead of more, because China no longer needs TSMC and their research.

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  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    Because it is. They've also made it very clear that they intend to follow a path of peaceful unification and the only reason that hasn't happened already is because of US meddling and military threats.

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