As the benefit to each next generation of chips becomes lower and lower though, that might not matter as much to some countries as independence. For example, I

As the benefit to each next generation of chips becomes lower and lower though, that might not matter as much to some countries as independence. For example, I've read that Russia manufactures some of its own computer chips for military purposes where it doesn't trust imported chips. If any country wanted to, I'm guessing they could manufacture CPUs that would've been top of the line 10 years ago, and honestly, for most applications that would be good enough. It also might be that individual countries would manufacture chips for certain applications, and then they could buy the "world's top of the line" from Intel, Samsung, and TSMC just for high end business or gaming machines, which is a smaller market than the total market for all tablets, phones, IOT devices, etc.