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>>miohta+(OP)
It doesn’t matter if it will work or not, this is something that some large U.S. companies have been prepping for, the slow process of starting to move manufacturing to the U.S., or at least to play games to make it look like it, if tariffs can be avoided.

Personally, as much as I accept that the top chips were made in Taiwan, I don’t think it’s impossible in theory for top chips to be made in the U.S.- but it would require massive changes. Starting with the culture. We’d need to turn off the T.V., work longer hours, and homeschool kids for 15 hours per day with the world’s best educational resources. And even when other countries’ kids and parents do that, they still don’t succeed.

But, I think China will end up being self-sufficient, not needing the rest of the world. In a few years, they’ll be charging an arm and a leg for AI. The rest of the world won’t be able to compete with because we don’t have adequate energy production. They’ll also acquire the ability to make the chips they need.

We could just give it up, and I think that’s where most of us are- watching fascism slowly take hold, knowing we’re fucked and the next thing we’ll see is news of a full-scale global war.

In the meantime, maybe we’ll start making shitty products like Britain did in the mid-20th century.

>>vghdil+U9
TSMC already manufactures chips in the US, much of their value add comes from European companies like ASML and Zeiss, and the fundamental technology EUV was invented in the US.

> and homeschool kids for 15 hours per day with the world’s best educational resources

Taiwan doesn't have the world's best educational resources - what language do you think they're written in?

Btw, when they did try to do this, they ended up with a national epidemic of myopia and had to make the kids go outside.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/01/shortsighted-t...