[scarface74]

It doesn’t matter how much money governments are throwing at competitors. The expertise required is tied up in Taiwan everything else is just to get political brownie points.

Just like when the TSMC factory does come online and is fully operational in the US, there will still be a huge dependency on Taiwanese manufacturing.

It’s the same thing you saw when Cook prostrated himself to Trump showing Apple “bringing Mac manufacturing to the US”. All they did was bring final assembly of Mac Pros that sold in low volumes back.

Apple did the same in the UK and other countries to make the politicians look good.