[skeptic_ai]

I’m worried if west gets to ahead the best thing for C is to destroy the factories to slow down the ai.

If west ai is too advanced can take over the world. So better go to war now on a same level playing field than later when you need to fight against a SGI

[aspenmartin]

That is exactly the scenario that I believe and invest in. I peg trouble in Taiwan in the next 2 years at about 30%, which is waaaay higher than is priced into the market right now. If you think intel has gone up in price a lot now, it will absolutely skyrocket if TSMC fabs suddenly disappear. After adjusting to a domestic fab pipeline, we will have built up again an industry with a good talent pool (which we don't have now, Arizona TSMC fab needed to ship people in from Taiwan). At that point, why go back to a TSMC model? Hence we will have a booming domestic production pipeline, though still with complex international dependencies for various components.