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It's possible everywhere. It wasn't practical from an economic perspective. I believe the author's position is that previously, one of the only considerations

It's possible everywhere. It wasn't practical from an economic perspective. I believe the author's position is that previously, one of the only considerations was, "how much will it cost." Or, "Does it make sense for us to invest in X fab?" Now there are other considerations beyond the economic and I'm certain you will begin to see not only fabs, but the full chain, in the EU and China. Probably sooner rather than later. What does that mean for the different economic blocks? What does that mean for tech in general? What does that mean for global security? Do we, (the US), have sufficient creativity to wargame all that out and get an idea of the future? Etc I think that's what the article is about.

solotronics 6y ago
Taiwan did everything they could to lead chip fab so the US would find them geopolitically valuable. It's not a coincidence this scenario came about.
- disown 6y ago
  I think you have it backwards. We found taiwan to be geopolitically valuable so we helped them "lead chip fab". We have to keep taiwan, korea, japan, etc happy to keep them from aligning with china. Like we have to keep germany/ukraine/etc happy to keep them from aligning with russia. Of course these countries want to keep the US, China, Russia, etc "interested" to give them more goodies - tech/markets/access/etc. The more suitors, the greater the competition, the more plentiful the gifts. Vietnam is doing this right now with china and the US and getting investment/political favors/market access/etc from both.