<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sun, Dec 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>
><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span> I figure if China invades Taiwan the world will suffer but Intel will benefit, and if they don't then TSMC will thrive regardless of which software company makes the smartest AI.</b></font></blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>That depends on your definition of 'thrive', I reckon.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>If Communist China invades Taiwan, I don't see anybody benefiting apart<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>from the upper echelons of the CCP</font></i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>Xi Jinping<span class="gmail_default" style=""> is stupid enough to invade Taiwan I don't think he will benefit anymore than Vladimir Putin benefited from invading Ukraine. But is he that stupid? I don't know, but I do know if China invades Taiwan it will no longer be able to manufacture cutting edge computer chips, but there will still be a huge demand for them, and Intel would be well placed to fill that vacuum. Until just a few years ago Intel was renowned for its manufacturing prowess because it followed founder </span>Andy Grove<span class="gmail_default" style="">'s philosophy "Only The Paranoid Survive", but then it got fat dumb and happy and so TSMC took control. Intel needs to get its mojo back. </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>