Comments by "" (@PainterVierax) on "Is America Stealing TSMC?" video.

  1.  @akatsuki6371  it's been since 97 and the 350nm node that gate size and half-pitch started to not scale anymore. So yeah, a long long time. Also the modern "marketing BS" node names aren't equal from manufacturer to manufacturer as the use of a new tech like immersion lithography, double patterning, Fin-Fet, EUV or the future GAAFET depends on each fab process.
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  2. I'm pretty sure PRC won't be able to monopolize the advanced chip market at all. Because if PRC attacks Taiwan there probably is some emergency protocol to sabotage the fabs, at least for the precious ASML lithography machines that PRC won't never be able to buy, repair or replicate.
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  3. maybe this N5 (then N4) plant will make this node as the next legacy node for things difficult to scale down like mems and analog circuits.
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