> if they are "just tools", why doesn't TSMC just build them themselves? If TSMC isn’t doing anything special why doesn’t the EU just build fabs then? > I'm n

> if they are "just tools", why doesn't TSMC just build them themselves? If TSMC isn’t doing anything special why doesn’t the EU just build fabs then? > I'm not hearing any major challenges here that couldn't be overcome in the EU, considering the EU is capable of building some of the machines which are state of the art. So why don’t they do it?