Automakers backed up due to semiconductor shortage

Chips are all being used for 5G and AI, not much left.

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German economics minister asked Taiwan to ramp up chip production for cars.

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Saw that. Ford and GM too.

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Oh, so now the german car mobsters need taiwan…nice.

Germany, USA, and Japan are all breathing down Taiwan’s neck.

How about we go back to dumb cars.
I mean, before the electronics revolution, a piece of equipment
Was built from real physical parts.
Parts… Parts that could be fabricated, jury-rigged, modified or improvised into working.
Thing like aircraft carrier catapults, combat gear, medical devices and more could be kept going with as the real Spock would put it…“stone knives and bearskins.”
A well placed EMP could possibly disable critical system that could never be fixed in the field when it comes to devices relying too much on digital Solutions the mechanical Solutions could do just as well.

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Good point. You might like this article. Really fascinating stuff.

I also must re-emphasize the fact that during Soviet high-altitude nuclear tests over Kazakhstan in 1962, rugged diesel generators having no solid state parts were burned out by E1 EMP. In an important international electromagnetics conference in 1994, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, General Vladimir Loborev delivered an important technical paper in which he stated, “The matter of this phenomenon is that the electrical puncture occurs at the weak point of a system. Next, the heat puncture is developed at that point, under the action of the power voltage; as a result, the electrical power source is put out of action very often.” This illustrates that even vehicles without an electronic ignition or other electronic components are not completely immune from EMP.

The main advantage of a well-maintained older vehicle may be that it is likely to be much easier to repair if it does sustain EMP damage. The Soviet experience is a warning to keep critical electrical spare parts on hand for the older vehicle. This includes things like ignition coils, mechanical distributors, generators and starting motors. In particular, any critical item with a coil of wire that is insulated using enamel or a similar substance may be prone to breakdown, and needs to have a replacement part on hand. Also, as I have said on other pages, a good supply of automotive fuses is also critical.

The worst thing about nuclear EMP and motor vehicles is if you happen to be driving in heavy traffic when it happens. In this event, simultaneously , a certain percentage of vehicles will stop running (perhaps temporarily), many more drivers will be instantly and simultaneously distracted by strange electrical behavior happening inside of the car, and (at the same instant) the traffic lights will abruptly go out or go into a flashing mode. This instantly creates the worst traffic jam in history in certain localities, and vehicular accidents at some busy intersections are likely to be severe or fatal. If you have an working motor vehicle in a post-EMP situation, there may not be any clear roads to drive on.

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He was the guy that said Germany doesn’t give a fuck about China’s abuses.

I guess it takes the nazis to know the nazis.

At least the US and Japan treat Taiwan with some respect. Germany can just go fuck themselves.

Did this just turned from a tech/chips thread to a politics and hate thread?

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Steam catapults!

Unlike Taiwan

Of export destinations, China—including Hong Kong—the U.S., and Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states were the top three, respectively claiming 46.4
, 14.9 percent and 14.8 percent of all Taiwan exports.

https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=6&post=184789

According to statistics released by the General Administration of Mainland China on the 14th, in 2020 total imports from the mainland to Taiwan exceeded $ 200 billion, reaching $ 20,064 billion, up 16.0% from the previous year; mainland exports to Taiwan totaled $ 60.141 billion, an annual increase of 9.1%;

https://verietyinfo.com/taiwaneng/chinas-imports-from-taiwan-exceed-200-billion-in-2020/

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Well, unlike Germany, we don’t go around pointing fingers at other countries like European countries do, and we certainly never committed a genocide like the Nazis did.

The fact that Germany is completely unfazed by China’s genocide now simply shows how little Germans mean it when they claim to have learned from the Shoah.

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Never say never

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And Taiwan did that?

If you believe that the ROC is the legal successor to the Qing dynasty then yes. Just like the current Germany (the Bundesrepublik) is the legal successor of the Third Reich.

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No I do not. PRC is the legal successor. ROC is just Taiwan now.

What does it mean that Taiwan is completely unfazed by China’s genocide? They have learned from the Rape of Nanjing?

What?

Should probably go elsewhere, but you claimed that Germay’s eagerness to trade with China is proof that they haven’t learned from the Holocaust- to what do you attribute Taiwan’s eagerness to trade with China?
Or U.S.- trade was up 8% in 2020 in spite of covid, while EU was up 5%.
America forgets Wounded Knee?

Now every semiconductor company is building new fabs and when they are finished there is probably going to be a glut of chips, sinking the price.