I mean Taiwan isn't exactly jumping at the chance to build advance chips for the rougue provences of West Taiwan, that constantly warn of their impeding violent invasion of Taiwan.
Also their yields at 7nm are apparently terrible, assuming they are being honest about the actual production. A few years ago China put out news of a home grown x86 chip that was on par with Zen 1 or something like that, and it turned out they had just repackaged old chips.
I mean Taiwan isn't exactly jumping at the chance to build advance chips for the rougue provences of West Taiwan, that constantly warn of their impeding violent invasion of Taiwan.
Also their yields at 7nm are apparently terrible, assuming they are being honest about the actual production. A few years ago China put out news of a home grown x86 chip that was on par with Zen 1 or something like that, and it turned out they had just repackaged old chips.