[jayparth]

TSMC is worth $500B alone for a reason. To say it'd cost 10s of billions is a pretty crazy idea

[reidjs]

Are you saying he was off by only one order of magnitude?

[adt2bt]

And time. Say we even put $1T into replacing TSMC's capabilities stateside, it would take years, potentially decades, to get the people, knowledge, processes and technology.

[neartheplain]

"Only" is doing some pretty heavy lifting there.

[bigbillheck]

We could have had four of those for what we spent in Afghanistan.