you own a cellphone/computer and have plans to buy a new one eventually chips are fucking everywhere in everyone's life the entire computer chip supply chain relies on a network of fabs that may be majority based in taiwan, but require multinational support from around the world both in the form of labor and manpower as well as in the form of material components not built in taiwan every single step of the supply chain is like this a typical preventative maintenace period for a given tool is about 6 months, and daily support remotely from outside taiwan is required to even maintain the kind of uptime that allows that kind of pm period
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