As for Taiwan, about 50% of semi-conductors used in American defense industry and designed and manufactured in Taiwan. If China takes over Taiwan, America is skrued.
Yes, everyone and their grandma knows they make semiconductors in Taiwan.
Here's a wild thought - they could use some of the money they make selling all these high-end chips for their own defense.
We should probably learn to make these chips in America and not rely on an unrecognized island country. That would be a more sane defense policy to me.
We can and do make our own. But we outsourced the manufacturing to improve profit margins.
Consider how suicidal that is. A handful of companies make way more money, and ALL OF US have to deal with the resulting military pissing contest with China because of it.
As for Taiwan, about 50% of semi-conductors used in American defense industry and designed and manufactured in Taiwan. If China takes over Taiwan, America is skrued.
Yes, everyone and their grandma knows they make semiconductors in Taiwan.
Here's a wild thought - they could use some of the money they make selling all these high-end chips for their own defense.
We should probably learn to make these chips in America and not rely on an unrecognized island country. That would be a more sane defense policy to me.
Yeah it so simple isn't it ?
I wonder why only you have figured this out and all the American entrepreneurs and the government haven't figured this out yet.
Yes, everyone and their grandma knows they make semiconductors in Taiwan.
Here's a wild thought - they could use some of the money they make selling all these high-end chips for their own defense.
We should probably learn to make these chips in America and not rely on an unrecognized island country. That would be a more sane defense policy to me.
How dumb. That's like saying, "Why doesn't the U.S. just use Amazon's profits to do such-and-such?" *checks notes* Just remembered where I am.