If you want the best chips, you have to go to Taiwan to get them made. Or maybe South Korea, where Samsung has built an impressive so-called foundry business making semiconductors for other companies. Many of the famous 'chipmakers' we think of in the US today don't actually make chips. Nvidia, Qualcomm, AMD, and all the others design chips, then they usually have TSMC manufacture them. This highlights the troubling reality of the US's reliance on foreign fabs.
Intel's fall from grace represents a huge strategic and geopolitical problem for the US. The company was once the best semiconductor manufacturer in the world but has plummeted, unable to keep up with TSMC's ascent. Currently valued at less than $100 billion, Intel's inability to effectively run fabs threatens America's position in the global semiconductor market.
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