While the decision by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s biggest contract chip manufacturer, to expand production at its plant in Nanjing, the capital city of Chinese coastal province Jiangsu, may make sense amid a global chip shortage, it has nonetheless stirred cross-strait tensions.
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In Taiwan, Wang Mei-hua, minister of economic affairs for the self-ruled island, faced questions from lawmakers in a hearing this week about whether TSMC’s planned Nanjing investment would increase risks of Chinese theft of Taiwanese technology, a growing concern for Taiwan when Beijing is ramping up military pressure on the island.
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Xiang Ligang, a Beijing-based tech analyst, recently wrote an influential article that called on the Chinese authorities to stop TSMC’s Nanjing expansion plan. He said TSMC was trying to “dump” 28-nm node chips on the mainland to beat out Chinese rivals and that it could threaten China’s domestic efforts to catch up in chip manufacturing. Xiang also wrote that TSMC’s recent decision to set up an advanced fab in Arizona for 5-nm node chip production, with an investment of US$12 billion, was part of a broad strategy to deny the mainland any access to advanced technologies."

汉服患人指，高明逼美恶。
Can TSMC still fly alone?
The window of freedom (游冥冥) is closing fast.
For China as well as for TSMC.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3131823/why-has-tsmcs-nanjing-expansion-plan-stirred-hornets-nest-beijing-and

On Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 9:04:35 AM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:
> While the decision by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s biggest contract chip manufacturer, to expand production at its plant in Nanjing, the capital city of Chinese coastal province Jiangsu, may make sense amid a global chip shortage, it has nonetheless stirred cross-strait tensions.
> ...
> In Taiwan, Wang Mei-hua, minister of economic affairs for the self-ruled island, faced questions from lawmakers in a hearing this week about whether TSMC’s planned Nanjing investment would increase risks of Chinese theft of Taiwanese technology, a growing concern for Taiwan when Beijing is ramping up military pressure on the island.
> ...
> Xiang Ligang, a Beijing-based tech analyst, recently wrote an influential article that called on the Chinese authorities to stop TSMC’s Nanjing expansion plan. He said TSMC was trying to “dump” 28-nm node chips on the mainland to beat out Chinese rivals and that it could threaten China’s domestic efforts to catch up in chip manufacturing. Xiang also wrote that TSMC’s recent decision to set up an advanced fab in Arizona for 5-nm node chip production, with an investment of US$12 billion, was part of a broad strategy to deny the mainland any access to advanced technologies."
>
> 汉服患人指，高明逼美恶。
> Can TSMC still fly alone?
> The window of freedom (游冥冥) is closing fast.
> For China as well as for TSMC.

Tsai wants to humiliate China by using TSMC into giving a smack at China by
dumping the 3rd generation chip on the mainland.

TSMC has the plant in Shanghai knows its facility there is able to produce
the 3rd generation.

Taiwan law allows 3rd generation chip to be built in China but not the 4th
and 5th generation.

There is a growing electronic industry in China. The electronic industry is
still economically strong and booming in China.

Its economic is attracting more investments from Taiwan instead. If China
rejects it, they could move elsewhere.

However, from investment perspective, it is not always practical to move.

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While the decision by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the
world’s biggest contract chip manufacturer, to expand production at its
plant in Nanjing, the capital city of Chinese coastal province Jiangsu, may
make sense amid a global chip shortage, it has nonetheless stirred
cross-strait tensions.
....
In Taiwan, Wang Mei-hua, minister of economic affairs for the self-ruled
island, faced questions from lawmakers in a hearing this week about whether
TSMC’s planned Nanjing investment would increase risks of Chinese theft of
Taiwanese technology, a growing concern for Taiwan when Beijing is ramping
up military pressure on the island.
....
Xiang Ligang, a Beijing-based tech analyst, recently wrote an influential
article that called on the Chinese authorities to stop TSMC’s Nanjing
expansion plan. He said TSMC was trying to “dump” 28-nm node chips on the
mainland to beat out Chinese rivals and that it could threaten China’s
domestic efforts to catch up in chip manufacturing. Xiang also wrote that
TSMC’s recent decision to set up an advanced fab in Arizona for 5-nm node
chip production, with an investment of US$12 billion, was part of a broad
strategy to deny the mainland any access to advanced technologies."

汉服患人指，高明逼美恶。
Can TSMC still fly alone?
The window of freedom (游冥冥) is closing fast.
For China as well as for TSMC.