@alexmanredismid@plugyawn it'd be too big a move and result in the collapse of its support if it mandates TSMC to forcibly give Nvidia favourable terms. It'd be such obvious puppetry by the US government that it'd result in too big a scandal to play down.
@RageoftheMage You don't have a networth of billions of dollars, a private jet, a dual citizenship with a nation officially not-recognized by the US government, direct ties to some of the most important people in said nation, and a cadre of loyal engineers who would jump ship to join you.
@jhong so powerful that Nvidia and TSMC did business without need for a contract. There was just an understanding in place between Jensen and TSMC, namely Morris Chang.
@changnisia0@AnalyticaCamil1 If the US is willing to blow up Taiwan over something as minor as control over ONE Graphics cards companies, then perhaps Taiwan should actually consider China.
The Calculus still has to make sense for Taiwan to pick an increasingly unreliable DC over Beijing y'know.
@TheLZtweets Nothing has been done about anyone on the Epstein files. People who have done, inarguably, far worse while acting as foreign intelligence sources for a certain middle eastern nation.
This is not a moral issue, this is a power grab, and should be called out as such.
@svrnco Jensen wouldn't go to Elon, he'd had off to his buddies in TSMC where no SEC investigation can take place and no non-compete would be enforced. He's good friends with Morris Chang to the point where there was no contract between Nvidia and TSMC, just private deals between the two
@szetoinsitu@AnalyticaCamil1 Not just their interface layer with the US market, but the interface layer between business and engineering. Taiwan won't enforce non-competes so he can leave with some loyalist and head a new effort in TSMC.
@DaveLukewski@TornadoTheBrit They didn't. The Deathrate was higher 50 years ago. 11.8 compared to last year's 9.51, and it went as low as 8.7 in 2011.
People can just, die, you know.
@CryptoCyberia He doesn't need to start a new business. There's a job offering for him at TSMC to take that's been open for years. It's much safer for him in Taiwan than in America so he'll probably head there too.
@AnalyticaCamil1@jgmac1106 And hey look at that, there's a fine former CEO with experience in exactly that on the market with a Taiwanese citizenship. One who has great relationship with TSMC.
@BocaBola_ actually it isn't going to pivot to anything because TMSC isn't obligated to sell to Nvidia. There's no contract, sales happen purely because Jensen has such good ties with them.
Nothing stops TMSC from now cutting out the middle man and hiring Jensen to lead a new GD division.
@FuadtheG@SpookySpicez Hells Kitchen is NOT built on a literal Nexus point connecting the living realm to hell, founded by a serial killer lunatic who wanted escape into the New World, with immortality pits that drive you mad seeping into the water supply.
Gotham is built different, uniquely fucked.
@johndoe18411073@SpookySpicez well as Batman did manage to fry his ass, I'd say it makes for a surprisingly good tourist spot.
...provided he doesn't get back up that is, with how fucked Gotham is I wouldn't be surprised if he did.