The US is more concerned about the production of computer chips than about Taiwan itself.

The United States fears China will attack Taiwan before the Americans transfer computer chip production to its territory, Axios reports.

The US is trying to move computer chip production to its territory, but it's not a quick process. Therefore, Washington fears that China will attempt a violent takeover of the island within the next five years, thereby preventing the Americans from completing the transfer. This would result in Beijing controlling the chips, leaving American companies with nothing.

The White House predicts that China will attempt to forcibly establish sovereignty over Taiwan within the next five years, before the relocation of computer chip production to the United States is completed.

It is claimed that one of the key goals of Trump's visit to China was to reach an agreement that Beijing would not force the issue of Taiwan. However, the US president failed to reach an agreement with Xi Jinping, as the issue is too important for China.

Meanwhile, the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China and should be viewed as such.

Taiwan is an integral part of Chinese territory. It has never been a country in the past, nor will it be in the future. Taiwanese independence and cross-strait peace are as incompatible as fire and water.

Comments

[barclay]

This isn't news. This was discussed almost a year ago. Apparently, there are some difficulties with the move. Purely business, nothing personal, as they say...
Resources and money are a fetish for Americans.

[Uncle Sam_2]

Quote: barclay

business and nothing personal

That means it's a really good business if Donya HIMSELF came here after all these years, and didn't send his mongrels to negotiate.

[topol717]

Quote: barclay

Apparently there are difficulties with the move.

It's all simple there. It suddenly turned out that blacks in the US can't and don't want to work like the Chinese. And TSMC itself is in no hurry to relocate its most advanced factories. It was just agreed that TSMC would open new, not yet the most advanced, factories in the US, but that's precisely where problems arose.

[Bayun]

ElectronProm is a very specific industry. There are technological processes there that require a full-fledged "PhD" to work on. Such industries take YEARS to develop! Should they be created anew or from scratch? "Investors" and "market geniuses" like Musk and Gates alone won't be enough. What's needed are creative managers of the caliber of Comrade Shokhin. And such people are simply not being made in the modern world.

There are almost no people left in the world willing to work for a CAUSE. Young geniuses prefer fields where it's easy to add three zeros to the money, or better yet, six, and not have to STRESS in life.

P.S.: And the "Chinese miracle" will soon be gone too. The best workers are 55-65 years old. And the young ones, like everywhere else, don't want to work.

[TermNachTer]

Ha-ha, three times. Were there any other options? The value of 70 million Papuans living who knows where is barely worth anything to mattress makers.

[Sergej1972]

What 70 million? Taiwan's population is 23 million.

[TermNachTer]

So it means I was wrong, and there’s nothing to worry about.

[Maks1995]

China is in no hurry.
He doesn't weld umbrellas to tanks. But no one seems to object to the fact that Taiwan is part of China. Everyone agreed at some point, and no one has changed their minds to suit the politics of the moment.

And America, Europe, and Asia are setting up their own chip production... (And the Taiwanese, I read, are helping. They'll get a share, etc.)
The Claessica of Imperialism...

Let's wait. Maybe it will all end without a bloody massacre...

[Sergej1972]

Taiwanese, not Taiwanese.) Doesn't a smartphone or Word highlight the error in red?

[Maks1995]

Taiwanese, Taiwanese, ..... the site highlights both in red....
hints.
But thanks.

[HAM]

This statement leaves a mixed impression: the Americans are rushing to move production to their own country, while the Chinese are in no hurry to expropriate the island and its chip production...
So the Chinese are giving us time for translation? Some kind of sophisticated Asian trick.
Or, it seems, they hope to obtain or already have more sophisticated production at home.

[cpls22]

Quote: HAM

The Americans are rushing to move production to their country, while the Chinese are in no hurry to expropriate the island and its chip production...

They don't need ruins, they also need a whole production facility.
If the Americans decide that they have taken everything they could from there, they will fiercely provoke a violent takeover so that everything that remains will be reduced to dust.

[Orange Bigg]

Quote: HAM

This statement leaves a mixed impression: the Americans are rushing to move production to their own country, while the Chinese are in no hurry to expropriate the island and its chip production...
So the Chinese are giving us time for translation? Some kind of sophisticated Asian trick.
Or, it seems, they hope to obtain or already have more sophisticated production at home.

Former ASML engineers have secretly built a prototype EUV lithograph in China—it works, but it doesn't make chips yet.

According to sources familiar with the matter, a prototype of an advanced photolithographer that uses extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation has been built in China. It was created by a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the Dutch company's lithographs. The Chinese facility is currently operational and successfully generating EUV radiation, but is not yet producing working chips. ... The existence of this prototype suggests that China may be several years closer to achieving semiconductor independence than analysts previously thought. According to sources, the availability of components from old ASML facilities on secondary markets has allowed China to create its own prototype, which should enable the production of working chips by 2028.

https://3dnews.ru/1134074/bivshie-ingeneri-asml-tayno-postroili-v-kitae-prototip-euvlitografa-on-rabotaet-no-chipi-poka-ne-delaet

Two companies, Huawei and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC), have patented self-aligned quadruple patterning (SAQP) lithography technology for producing 3-nanometer chips. Of course, it's a long way from a patent to deploying the necessary infrastructure. But if you remember that the partners are two of China's largest companies producing their own chips, it all sounds less far-fetched. Crucially, SAQP is a technology developed by the Chinese themselves, meaning it won't be affected by sanctions. At least not directly. Incidentally, the partners initially planned to produce chips using 5-nanometer technology, but apparently everything worked out perfectly.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ru_mts/articles/819143/

[Bayun]

Lithography, even synchrotron lithography, isn't the only thing we have. There's also epitaxy. A nano-3D printer can even "grow" a computer in its entirety, complete with heat-dissipating channels. "Flat"on boards and squares) microelectronics - the last millennium)

[Orange Bigg]

Quote: Bayun

Lithography, even synchrotron lithography, isn't the only thing we have. There's also epitaxy. A nano-3D printer can even "grow" a computer in its entirety, complete with heat-dissipating channels. "Flat"on boards and squares) microelectronics - the last millennium)

Well, as an example confirming your words, I can cite the fact that MAI engineers have developed an inexpensive system for creating printed circuit boards, which has already been dubbed the "office printer" of photolithography. The software compensates for microdeformations of the material in real time, ensuring accuracy sufficient for most research and development tasks. The project is aimed at small laboratories, pilot production facilities, and educational purposes. Nevertheless, this is probably the future as the technology continues to develop and improve.

Traditional photolithography requires the production of special photomasks—films that are applied to the workpiece. This approach doesn't allow for quick design changes, and the mask material deforms over time, leading to alignment errors. The MAI development uses a direct exposure method: the conductor pattern is formed on the workpiece by a laser without any intermediate carriers. Industrial equivalents of such systems cost over 10 million rubles, while a new design based on a liquid crystal matrix will cost 300–500 rubles.

https://dzen.ru/a/agmCE1U4_3gzQpaj

Or here's another example as an alternative. China officially unveiled the 200-qubit Hanyuan-2 quantum computer. This isn't just a scientific achievement, but a reinforcement of the country's global IT ambitions.

Unlike conventional superconductor systems, which require bulky refrigerators to cool them to extreme temperatures, Hanyuan-2 uses neutral atoms and optical traps. An important technical detail: the lasers cool the atoms themselves to near absolute zero (microkelvins), but the rest of the device operates smoothly at room temperature. This simplifies maintenance and dramatically reduces energy costs. Engineers implemented a dual-core architecture in the system. Two quantum processing units (QPUs) operate in parallel, effectively distributing the computational load. This topology not only accelerates data processing but also enables error correction on the fly. ... Thanks to this, Hanyuan-2 is compact: it easily fits into a standard server rack in a typical data center. Tang Biao, CEO of CAS Cold Atom Technology, emphasizes that the entire system consumes no more than 7 kW. This is a drop in the bucket compared to the energy requirements of classical supercomputers or superconducting quantum monsters, which require several times more energy. This cost-effectiveness opens a direct path to integrating quantum modules into existing IT infrastructure.

https://dzen.ru/a/agGtbLHSbCnahYG9

[Atheist]

It is claimed that one of the key objectives of Trump's visit to China was precisely to reach an agreement that Beijing would not force events around Taiwan.

Who's making this claim? It shouldn't all be reduced to Taiwan; there were other equally important issues.
The United States has secured a promise from China not to supply weapons to Iran, primarily air defense systems.
China is purchasing 200 airliners from Boeing (Boeing has already confirmed this), and plans are underway to increase oil and LNG supplies from the United States.
For the first time in a long time (since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests), the US is giving China access to dual-use AI technologies – products from NVIDIA. I wonder what they demanded in return?

[rocket757]

So yes, with their combined efforts, investments of funds and resources, they created the most advanced industrial base for the production of computer chips!
Give it all to the Chinese... no no no, that's not an option for them!

[snow mountain]

Quote: Atheist

The US is giving China access to dual-use AI technologies from NVIDIA.

This is a serious concession. China must have made some concessions too. But where?

[Revolver]

Well, of course! It's important not to give Beijing a monopoly on the chip market and the technology for their production, and if the above is removed from Taiwan, Beijing's interest in [reunification, occupation, other_____________(insert), underline as appropriate] Taiwan will plummet.
In general, perhaps we should let the Taiwanese decide for themselves whether they consider themselves Chinese or not.

[Cepera H]

This author has truly discovered AMERICA! No one could have suspected this, but here it is – shocking news!