{"id":189912,"date":"2024-05-23T09:26:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/the-worlds-largest-chipmaker-could-flip-a-kill-switch-and-remotely-disable-its-machines-in-the-event-of-an-invasion"},"modified":"2024-05-23T09:26:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:26:51","slug":"the-worlds-largest-chipmaker-could-flip-a-kill-switch-and-remotely-disable-its-machines-in-the-event-of-an-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/the-worlds-largest-chipmaker-could-flip-a-kill-switch-and-remotely-disable-its-machines-in-the-event-of-an-invasion","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s largest chipmaker could flip a kill switch and remotely disable its machines in the event of an invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-largest-chipmaker-could-flip-a-kill-switch-and-remotely-disable-its-machines-in-the-event-of-an-invasion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this on NewsBreak:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>TSMC is the world\u2019s largest chipmaker, and it produces a massive percentage of the world\u2019s advanced computer chips\u2014by some estimates over the past few years, even around 90%. What happens if something were to happen in that part of the world to disturb this chipmaking ability? It\u2019d be catastrophic, of course, but TSMC and its main machine supplier, Dutch company ASML, say the machines wouldn\u2019t fall into hostile hands.<\/p>\n<p>Citing people close to the matter, Bloomberg reports both TSMC and ASML have ways to disable the lithographic machines located in Taiwan. This kill switch would be able to be remotely activated, should such a drastic action ever be required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this on NewsBreak: TSMC is the world\u2019s largest chipmaker, and it produces a massive percentage of the world\u2019s advanced computer chips\u2014by some estimates over the past few years, even around 90%. What happens if something were to happen in that part of the world to disturb this chipmaking ability? It\u2019d be catastrophic, of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}