Chip-making is material-intensive and needs to be done at a large capital-intensive scale in order to be competitive with other mercantilist states. You can't

Chip-making is material-intensive and needs to be done at a large capital-intensive scale in order to be competitive with other mercantilist states. You can't have a manufacturing-hostile environment here in this country and expect to be able to buy phones that are owned by you instead of President Xi and just on loan to you. Remember the fight over clipper chips? We've rearranged the electronics industry so that everything has a clipper chip, it's just outsourced and you can't see the details. (I say this like all of y'all reading this aren't younger than 35 and _remember_ the clipper chip).