[robbiep]

I’d never heard of Spruce Pine, interesting. I wasn’t able to read the wired article but another article said it wasn’t the silica/silicon that’s the world-beater there though, it’s the quartz for use in crucibles etc?

Also - does the US really have microchip supremacy? The highest tech fabs are non-us (Samsung and TSMC)

[GhettoComputers]

https://web.archive.org/web/20180808115837/https://www.wired... Here you go. Who gave them the technology in the first place and who do they rely on? They did not make it on their own, and the US's reseach, sphere of influence, technology shared in the western world is why these countries were able to advance in advanced electronics. Look at the founder's history in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Chang Its hard to say what country multinational companies are, you can note their location but does Toyota become Mexican if they assemble their cars in Mexico, Are they American if they assemble it in the US or does Apple become Chinese if they use Foxconn a Taiwanese company in China? If by fabrication location, when TSMC's 3nm plant opens in Arizona, or Samsung opens their 3nm in Texas that mean Taiwan or South Korea has supremacy or the US? The US controls the supply of the best materials, who gets technology, and sells goods like military technology, its lead the semiconductor business and I would have to say without the ideas, and materials from the US, it would not exist.