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TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan
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They are. But Taiwan is prone to earthquakes as well and seem to handle them fine
Those fabs in Taiwan, even though they look like plain boxes from the outside, are really a wonder of human ingenuity. Each machine that’s sensitive to quakes is on a vibration isolation pedestal and that pedestal is seismically braced, from what I’ve read.
Not to mention every building in Taiwan is laced with explosives in case China ever attacks…