Succumbing to President Donald Trump’s blatant “pay for protection” extortion, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) recently pledged US$100 billion to build additional chip factories in the American state of Arizona (on top of the three it already has there). The move has no basis in business logic. Rather, TSMC is gambling that appeasing Trump’s ego […]
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