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Depends on how long roving bands of tribal warlords continued killing each other over previous food and water resources. It might take a minute to get the CPU factories retrofitted to run on diesel generators once a winner emerges and decides to dedicate his fuel stash to manufacturing CPUs.
In the event of TSMC's fabs being destroyed by China attacking Taiwan, how long until we could produce modern CPUs?
It would obviously be possible, since we have CPUs now but once lived in caves. You can work backwards from "Semiconductor fabrication", which (I guess) would look something like: Microfabrication > Computation > Manufacturing > Electrical Engineering > Chemical Engineering > Metalworking > Power generation > Basic tools As to how long this would take, that feels very speculative. Did anyone print a copy of Wikipedia…
Depends on how long roving bands of tribal warlords continued killing each other over previous food and water resources. It might take a minute to get the CPU factories retrofitted to run on diesel generators once a winner emerges and decides to dedicate his fuel stash to manufacturing CPUs.
In the event of TSMC's fabs being destroyed by China attacking Taiwan, how long until we could produce modern CPUs?
I had this same thought before Y2K. All the hype around it I wondered if there’s tech stashed away somewhere safe and out of reach from global catastrophes like EMPs or other types of world events. I can guarantee governments have tech stashed somewhere on earth or in space. It’s the most logical way to ensure in an event like that, that those governments can restart and be ahead of everyone else in that event.
I just think it is not possible to meaningfully prepare for a once-in-a-century event. You simply cannot sustain significant budgets for such scenarios.