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Wow. TSMC currently consumes 5% of all power in Taiwan, and is predicted to consume up to 10% in the future, apparently because of EUV. Losing that would be catastrophic for the West, but doesn't China use TSMC chips too? Does the mainland even have a fab that could compete?



> but doesn't China use TSMC chips too? Does the mainland even have a fab that could compete?

China had alternative, slower but 100% domestic produced chips. See https://www.anandtech.com/show/15493/hygon-dhyana-reviewed-c...

Also SMIC directly competes with TSMC and was engineered by the basically the same team of TSMC people.




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