TheImmortal
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usa already have the production technology , in forrm if Intel Fabs which its chips are even denser than tsmc chips. so i doubt it be life threathening for them , they can build several other fabs based on that technology .
Europe and USA have GlobalFoundries also don't forget , Micron from USA, and Fuji Electronic and Kioxia from Japan , also SK Hynix and Samsung from S. Korea
Having the ABILITY and having the SCALE are two different things. Why do you think Apple took billions in losses? Global Automative industry took 200B+ in losses during pandemic and subsequent chip shortages?They do not have the supply production capability to match Asia.
To bring such a production to US soil will require hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies each and every year.
It is 40% cheaper to build a chip in Asia than in US with labor costs and expenses factored in.
This chart says it all:
And South Korea Chip production will be flattened overnight by a Chinese war machine.
So if you are relying on SK to feed the entire western world and give up Taiwan to China....you just lost the economic war.