[quantumwannabe]

Your post has an enormous aroma of patriotism. Where were you when Taiwan was subsidizing TSMC? They were only able to outcompete Western fabs due to the enormous amount of government help they got in the early days. Those Taiwanese leaders sure were stupid to have invested in chip manufacturing.

[deltaseventhree]

Patriotism for America at best. I'm American. Just not biased. Patriotism is a form of bias. When you have none you see the truth more clearly.

Taiwan subsidized tsmc for tech. Once the tech was established the subsidy ended.

Right now the US is subsidizing tsmc for simply switching locations. Once the location is switched the economic output of this plant will be negative so the subsidies have to remain.

The US chip market is not capable of making competitive chips. Not without economic assistance. This is categoric fact.