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Taiwan's TSMC, After US Request, Says It Won't Leak Sensitive Info (reuters.com) 41

Taiwan chipmaker TSMC will not leak any sensitive company information as part of a White House request for details on the ongoing semiconductor crisis that has forced cuts to U.S. auto production, the company's general counsel said. From a report: The White House made the request to automakers, chip companies and others last month. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said a voluntary request for information within 45 days on the chips crisis would boost supply chain transparency and that if companies did not answer the voluntary request "then we have other tools in our tool box that require them to give us data." The issue has caused concern in Taiwan that companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world's largest contract chipmaker and a major Apple supplier, would have to hand over sensitive data. "Don't worry. We definitely will not leak our company's sensitive information, especially that related to customers," TSMC's general counsel Sylvia Fang said on Wednesday, in comments provided by the company on Thursday. "Customer trust is one of the key elements to our company's success," she added. "If this is to resolve supply chain issues, we will see how best we can do to help them. We have done so many things. For the part of auto chips, we've tried to increase output and prioritize auto chips to a certain degree."
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Taiwan's TSMC, After US Request, Says It Won't Leak Sensitive Info

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  • Great, more strong arming of private companies because our country is so addicted to automobiles.

    Maybe the Secretary of Commerce should try walking to work.

  • US auto makers pulled their orders and the lines filled up with other paying customers.

    Why are we threatening the Shop keeper cause a bully wants to cut line after they changed their mind

    • Why are we threatening the Shop keeper cause a bully wants to cut line after they changed their mind

      Because you are the even bigger bully.

  • by TomGreenhaw ( 929233 ) on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:37PM (#61870279)
    The US Department of Commerce asked for voluntary sanitized information to deal with chip shortages that put US workers out of jobs and consumers dealing with inflation and short supply.

    This isn't a big deal - the US government is doing its job and companies like TSMC are just covering their ass in public while price gouging its customers in private.

    Suppliers better get their act together or the US will heavily subsidize industries that don't meet demand. International "free trade" will be a thing of the past and the US military mission to protect it will be unnecessary.
    • You and the government can fuck off with your false assumptions and authoritarian bullshit that will just make things worse.
      • LOL, OK I'll bite.

        Do you think the US government should simply stick its head in the sand and do nothing about supply chain disruptions?

        How is asking TSMC for voluntarily providing information about production authoritarian?

        They asked that the data be provided voluntarily and pointed out that they could have required it. Remember - TSMC is asking the US government for subsidies and tax breaks to build capacity in the US. The US also provides significant support for Taiwan.
        • How is asking TSMC for voluntarily providing information about production authoritarian?
          Because it is? Are you dumb or what?

          The US also provides significant support for Taiwan.
          Taiwan is a country, TSMC is a company.

          You know the difference, or not?

    • The US has never protected "free trade" despite lying about it for as long as anyone can remember.
      There was a time when the US helped to set up the GATT and then the WTO but every time an American company was sanctioned for breaking the rules, they ignored them entirely.
      The whole world knows that when America says "free trade" they mean "give us what we want, now".
      • That's why I put "free trade" in quotes. The mission of the US Navy is to keep international shipping lanes open. Otherwise why would the US care a whit about the South China Sea and Taiwan? If the US didn't care about the shipping lanes being open, they wouldn't waste time there and Japan, Taiwan, Korea, etc. would have a big problem.

        >The whole world knows that when America says "free trade" they mean "give us what we want, now".

        Yep, and if you don't, we'll make it ourselves and then compete with y
        • ...we'll make it ourselves and then compete with you.

          But you won't which is the whole point here. American companies outsourced everything to cheap labour countries.
          The other problem is that you keep using terms like "we" and "us" when the vast corporations pushing all this stuff don't have anything to do with you.

      • The whole world knows that when America says "free trade" they mean "give us what we want, now".
        You forgot: and better hurry up!

    • Even after the US semiconductor industry is recovered, China will still be China, and the US will still protect Taiwan as a check on Chinese growth into the Pacific.

      We have a long history in the Pacific. It has nothing to do with semiconductors.

      • I think I agree with each of your points in the short term. China is the most populous country on the planet and 4 times the population of the US. As they grow in military and economic power, the US will need to face the fact that China is too big to dictate terms, including the future of Taiwan. That said, the US is China's largest customer by far and they need the US, and that provides balance for the time being. While that balance is maintained, Taiwan will be protected by the US. But as long as the Chin
        • Countries defending themselves is not a matter of "dictating terms" to their neighbors.

          China can't attack Taiwan and also have access to the US market. It's really that simple.

          Yeah, it would be better if the US manufacturing recovers before an economic crisis. Time will tell. But if disruptions are the result of a war against an ally, the US government can simply order companies to build factories.

          The idea that any of this has anything to do with "going abroad and fix[ing] another country's problems" is jus

  • Things are heating up between Taiwan and China. US troops are in the country, this is the worst time to cross one of your biggest allies...
  • Go look at how Taiwanese media report this, chips for autos is just an excuse. Many in TW are viewing this as Huawei 2.0, or Alstom 2.0 (see "The American Trap"), some analyst think it likely that the ultimate aim of the US govt is to takeover key parts of TSMC just like they did to Alstom. I think TSMC executives would avoid travelling anywhere near US or Canada now, so they won't become Meng 2.0.

    Considering how US is reliant on TSMC chips, it is not surprising for US policy makers to decide they need to

  • What is TSMC's plan for when China invades?

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