We've seen from the past few years of AMD vs Intel that the smart fab engineers don't live in the US and don't work for AMD or Intel. They live in Hsinchu (and

We've seen from the past few years of AMD vs Intel that the smart fab engineers don't live in the US and don't work for AMD or Intel. They live in Hsinchu (and have AMD as a customer). "The other claim implicit in this argument is that China isn't smart enough, like there's a monopoly of fab engineers: only the smart ones live in the US and work for Intel and AMD. That is nonsense bordering on racism (chinese are too dumb to compete)."