Well. Sucks to be American at the moment.
As for "Chip Manufacturing" it was always a world wide business.
Just TSMC got ahead of everyone and took marketshare because Intel, Texas Instruments, AMD, IBM, Samsung and more fumbled and stagnated... Had nothing to do with companies moving manufacturing elsewhere to save costs. American fabs refused or couldn't compete on leading-edge nodes for a very long time.
TSMC today on a leading edge node is more expensive than it has ever been in the past and more expensive than it's competitors, it's not about saving money, it's about the best process node to make the most competitive chips.
American companies just didn't invest in R&D and didn't innovate and got left behind technologically... And then refused to open up their foundries for 3rd parties until companies like TSMC took marketshare and started to make a crap ton of cash.
And potentially we are seeing history repeat itself with A.I. right now.
American companies are being slow to innovate with large, expensive, bureaucratic solutions... China, Taiwan and South Korea -will- swoop in as they have much more nimble tech markets.
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On another note, I don't mind seeing nVidia getting slammed at the moment, if this MAKES companies pause for a few seconds and start to think about their investment in A.I. and specifically nVidia chips... Then that should place some downward pressure on nVidia, which then hopefully means nVidia needs to be a little more tactful in the PC marketspace.
Or at the very least increase GPU supply.
Honestly I just want lower god damn prices. And I am not ashamed to hide my frustration over the current situation.
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