Why are we so dependent on Taiwan for microchips? Why couldn’t these be manufactured elsewhere, in addition to Taiwan?
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[Asianometry](https://www.youtube.com/c/Asianometry)
This channel on youtube goes into a lot of detail about why we are dependent on Taiwan for microchips.
Taiwan houses TSMC which is a semiconductor foundry. They get their photolithography machines exclusively from ASML which is a Dutch company. US won’t let ASML sell the latest EUV machines to China and TSMC ends up buying their entire stock.
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