My consumer AMD card (7900 XTX) outperforms the 15x more expensive Nvidia server chip (L40S) that I was using.
Surely it would be cheaper and easier for the CCP to develop their own chipmaking capacity than going to war in the Taiwan strait?
with a reality tv show dude being the commander in chief and a news reporter being the defense secretary.
life is tough in america, man.
That's not certain. Most war games show that the U.S. would lose the war (also read official reports done for congress). You can't win against the world's leading producer of goods by trying to attack them from the sea when they can reach you with rockets from their own territory.
If I were China I’d be more worried about the other up and coming world power in India.
building their own capacity means building everything in China, that is the entire semiconductor ecosystem. just look at the mobile phones and EVs built by Chinese companies.
The USA doesn't want to lose Taiwan because of the chip making plants, and a little bit because it is beneficial to surround their geopolitical enemies with a giant ring of allies.
that is what the CCP tells you and its own people.
the truth is taiwan is just the symbol of US presence in western pacific. getting taiwan back means the permanent withdrawal of US influence in the western pacific region and the offical end of US global dominance.
CCP doesn't care the island of taiwan, they care about their historical positioning.
In any case it's clear that it is not the fabs that China cares about when it is talking about (re)conquering Taiwan.
America is a society and component of a civilization that has never really understood itself or its place in the world and history. We peaked in the industrial warfare of WWII, and then bumbled our way through trying to rely on our past self-involved achievement.