@HPCpodcast: Taiwan under Threat from China – TSMC and the ‘Techno-politics’ of Advanced Chips

In this week's episode of the @HPCpodcast, Doug Black and Shahin Khan discuss how global competition around advanced technologies has turned geopolitics into "techno-politics" and techno-nationalism. In HPC, this means chips that drive supercomputers are increasingly regarded as instrumental to economic and military competitiveness. Sparking this discussion is a recently published and widely read academic paper covered last week in insideHPC: Chip Geopolitics: If China Invades, Make Taiwan Unwantable' by Destroying TSMC." In the paper, two military strategists theorize that China's threatened invasion across the Taiwan Strait

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