TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan

Post by misja111 » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 11:56 AM UTC

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Taiwanese politicians, like those under American-style democracy in many regions, only care about safeguarding their own interests and have no concern for how to protect the interests of the public. Once TSMC’s factories are completed in Japan and the United States and the technology is secured, Taiwan will no longer have any value worth protecting. Of course, the politicians can always take planes and leave in advan…

The US protected Taiwanese sovereignty for decades before they even had a single semiconductor fab. This idea of "the silicon shield" just shows a complete ignorance of the history of Taiwan and its place in the geopolitical order.

Post by jamespo » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 11:59 AM UTC

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Your response is, completely expected, an appeal to outrage. You’re asserting that account age shouldn’t matter, and that any scrutiny is morally illegitimate. Nobody is discriminating against you. It’s just that account age is one of the few signals that an online platform has to go by. HN absolutely recognizes this in their policy, considering that they give new accounts an entirely different color to make them sta…

>Your response is, completely expected, an appeal to outrage. How do you react towards ageism and discrimination? >It’s just that account age is one of the few signals that an online platform has to go by. None of that invalidates or even addresses my arguments. It's still about exclusion of people based on account date rather than WHAT they say. >HN absolutely recognizes this in their policy, considering that they g…

Post by ifwinterco » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 12:01 PM UTC

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I think it can just take inaction, because it's a market that moves so fast and requires constant enormous investment to keep up. If you just do nothing within half a decade or so you'll be far behind the cutting edge and at that point the decline gains its own momentum

It is possible. But that seems out of character for the Europeans, they're pretty consistent about going the distance to make absolutely sure that the next new thing doesn't happen in Europe. It seems much more likely they had a suite of environmental, social and trade policies carefully calibrated to move semiconductor manufacturing somewhere else.

Post by ffsm8 » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 12:09 PM UTC

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okay,the preceding paragraph I referenced of yours was > It's the same with arms purchases now. France blocked Ukraine from using its money to buy British made weapons that are already available, since it expects that money to go back into the French economy, not to the economy of a competitor, even if the much needed weapons will arrive much later. Which you the followed up with > Yeah I know, UK isn't EU anymore, b…

>unfounded opinion pieces with no collaborating evidence My evidence was (as you typed it yourself) that with the war in Ukraine and arms demand flourishing, France only spends money on subsidies with the guarantee that money is going back towards its own economy, as does every other major EU economy, not just for arms, but for semiconductors too. If you were too thick to get that, or you refuse to belive it on some…

Post by rich_sasha » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

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Germany squandered so much money on nonsense, when they could have simply driven the few kilometers over to Eindhoven and bought an ASML machine for "Silicon Saxony". Sure, it would have taken years and years and serious commitment by the government and private sector to make that a successful move. But instead of putting in the hard work with a clear vision for the future, we mostly spend our time whining and wailin…

High-end chips should be more of a EU concerted effort rather than every country for itself. The problem is that unlike Airbus, which (highly inefficiently) can be made in multiple countries, you can't really spread out parts of a fab that way. The most you can do is fab machines + chips + chip packaging. Netherlands already has fab machines and in packaging there isn't a high margin. That leaves chips, and you can b…