[jfoutz]

Physical stuff needs transportation, rail, river, or ocean. Small, expensive, intensive things like processors Can be made wherever.

[douche]

Well, after you invest the millions or billions to build the fabs and cleanrooms and other infrastructure needed to build them. That capital expenditure tends to location-lock that business pretty good.

[dom0]

Fabs are spread out over pretty much all the world. Americas, Europe, Asia, Russia etc. all have a bunch of them. Africa perhaps not so much.

And while it may be true that the investment in a fab locks that fab in place, the next fab can be again built wherever.