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by 1718627440 26 days ago
They are the most profitable, but you don't need much of those. While you need tons of cheap chips for robotics in manufacturing. If you want to focus on profits, you focus on the former, if you want the backbone of your industry to be more resilient, you focus on the latter. In a case of an embargo, the consumers can use yesteryear's hardware just fine, while the robot with a fixed deprecation schedule needs to be replaced.
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> the consumers can use yesteryear's hardware just fine,

Eu can't make yesterday's HW either. Nor HW form yester-dacde.

Yesteryears hardware was already made and is already owned by the people.