Globalized Chip Supply Chain
NVIDIA chips are manufactured by TSMC, a Taiwanese company. They're created using EUV lithography machines manufactured by ASML, a Dutch company. These machines consist of >50% of German parts (by value), in particular ZEISS optics. The most interesting fact about this globalized chain is the number of irreplaceable single points of failure. There's only one company that can make these chips at scale. It runs on equipment that only one company can make. Out of parts that only one company can make.
A screenshot of two posts explaining how NVIDIA chips depend on companies from Taiwan, the Netherlands, and Germany. The joke is the absurd fragility of this highly globalized supply chain, with irreplaceable single points of failure at every stage; it is shared as a reaction to discussions about technology, geopolitics, and supply-chain risk.
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- @profunctor_io / 11075 2025-08-29
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