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by deltaseventhree 1296 days ago
Essential for you. But overall tsmc eclipses everything else Taiwan makes.

If Taiwan stopped making those tools you would be impacted. The world overall... not so much.

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> Essential for you. But overall tsmc eclipses everything else Taiwan makes.

TSMC’s revenue is less than a tenth of Taiwan’s total export revenue. They might be the most profitable of Taiwan’s companies, but Taiwan has a huge economy.

And it terms of impact on the world economy, Hon Hai precision, better known in the west as Foxconn, would like to say hi.