How Taiwan’s Chips Compare To The U.S & Why They Are Important
Taiwan is the home of TSMC, the world's biggest and strongest semiconductor manufacturing company. Taiwan is a country that is seeped in a political minefield. The notions regarding its independence remain a contested topic, even as the U.S. moves to improve diplomatic relations with the island country. The history of Taiwan is a historian's delight in complexities.
With the amount of processing power the modern age relies on, both in terms of corporate efficiency and personal entertainment, it isn't hard to cipher just how drastic a sudden shift in the production half of this system would be in day-to-day life. But, of course, this wouldn't be as notable of a point to make if the world used a large variety of producers for chip products in the same way the world uses such a formula for any other technological necessity. The only problem is that there aren't any other chip producers close to TSMC's league, and they likely won't be for another five to ten years at least.
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TSMC, by itself, is an entity that makes Taiwan more than just a landscape for political inquiry and philosophy. Given TSMC's ability to produce chips for CPUs and GPUs at the scale it can and the quality it can, it has become the de-facto chip maker of the world. The tech industry has already seen the effect of the Russia and Ukraine conflict. There are now fears of what could happen if Taiwan's independence is threatened, given how much the world relies on TSMC for semiconductors.
AMD, the processor and GPU giant in the computing world, outsources all of its complex manufacturing needs to TSMC. This means that every one of the upcoming Ryzen 7000 series CPUs, for instance,
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