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Their US facilities are purposefully NOT bleeding-edge, and also cost more.

And this version of Intel can't, maybe a different one that fully separates design and foundry could. The best solution long-term would be to directly subsidize foundries, with the right incentives to acquire different customers (how TSMC or Samsung operate). They just might get lucky if everyone hits a hard scaling wall.

Whatever happens, tariffs and bans are the absolute worst incentives for innovation and growth.