

TSMC is the world’s most advanced chip manufacturer which makes processors for American companies including Apple and Qualcomm. “Because this is such a sophisticated manufacturing facility, it depends on real-time connection with the outside world, with Europe, with Japan, with U.S., from materials to chemicals to spare parts to engineering software and diagnosis.” If you take a military force or invasion, you will render TSMC factory non-operable,” Liu said. In the undated interview, Liu said that if Taiwan were invaded by China, the chip manufacturer’s plant would not be able to operate because it relies on global supply chains.

If China were to invade Taiwan, then the most-advanced chip factory in the world would be rendered inoperable, TSMC Chairman Mark Liu said in an English-language interview with CNN this week.
