Comment by HideousKojima

I'm personally leaning towards being opposed to intervening (and I think diversifying chip fab locations/companies/etc. over the next decade will remove much of Taiwan's geopolitical importance anyways) but the loss of Taiwanese independence to China would affect a lot more than Apple. The ability to supply any company or individual with modern high-end computing power would be severely limited, and much more expensive. Samsung and kinda sorta Intel are currently the only other fabs with capabilities on the level of TSMC, and their current production capacity is nowhere near enough to meet worldwide demand.