Comments by "genuinenness befitting" (@genuinennessbefitting4734) on "Who will win the global chip war?" video.

For TSMC's factory built in Arizona, the necessary building materials are manufactured in Taiwan and then shipped to Arizona in thousands of containers for assembly so that consumers will have to bear the high cost. Since then, the production of the Arizona factory has required importing raw materials from Taiwan every day. Therefore, if the production line encounters a problem that the fabs located in Taiwan can solve in an hour, it will take dozens of hours, days, or weeks to solve in Arizona. Also, whenever Taiwan is affected by geopolitical risks, TSMC still has to close its factory in Arizona, so having a factory in a country with no supply chain and no talents does not diversify risks and only increases costs. Therefore, it makes no sense at all.
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Before 2004, the United States led the world in semiconductor technology, and foundries had to pay IBM's technology license fees. But in 2004, TSMC took the lead in developing 0.13-micron copper process technology ahead of IBM, ushering in the era of Taiwan's semiconductor technology leading the world. In 2014, IBM withdrew from the foundry business, and TSMC considered buying IBM's fab in New York State. However, even though IBM's technology has lagged behind Taiwan by a decade, the US Department of Defense and IBM, still worried about the already fading American technology influx into Taiwan, rejected the deal. High-tech semiconductor technology is the result of Taiwan's efforts to develop, and now the United States claims to "bring back" semiconductor production to the United States.
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@marcos-ll2yr The advantage of the United States is not in semiconductor manufacturing. Taiwan has spent decades training many semiconductor engineers. All semiconductor engineers in the world are in Taiwan. Thousands of companies in Taiwan provide services and raw materials to TSMC. The United States does not have such a supply chain. The United States should use its advantages rather than catch up with semiconductor manufacturing technology. The United States should open up other cooperation with Taiwan and use both sides' advantages to maintain the two countries leading position in science and technology.
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@jkuang Intel has been manufacturing chips since 1958; why Intel still can't make cutting-edge chips? The US is never stopping producing chips for the last 64 years.
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Chinese cannot make advanced chips; all Chinese chips fab were set up by the Taiwanese.
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China's chips are built by poaching 3,000 Taiwanese engineers. If the United States and Taiwan prohibit these Taiwanese from assisting China, China's semiconductor industry will collapse overnight.
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@jkuang For 64 years, Intel still fails to make cutting-edge chips; when can your 'SOLVABLE" come true. Do you think the US has influence in TSMC? The technologies used in TSMC have only a 2% relation to the US technologies in 2 nm; for 5 nm, it's less than 10%, and more advanced chips have less relation to the US technologies. No wonder, in the recent election in Taiwan, the pro-US ruling party fails; now, the Taiwanese are more pro-China, it's because there are many Americans who are having your similar thought, one day when Taiwan decides to side with China, it's because of Americans like you.
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