Considering what extremely performant and reliable chips you get for under $0.10, it is no wonder that few economies can deliver here. It simply isn't worth it

Considering what extremely performant and reliable chips you get for under $0.10, it is no wonder that few economies can deliver here. It simply isn't worth it to manufacture these chips without selling billions of units. Not to mention the development, even the small chips today are extremely advanced from a technical perspective. Opening a lemonade stand is a far more solid business plan. Since owning know how is somehow not worth anything despite heavy handed patent laws, I think the business case is just bad. China seems to work against this with specifically funding establishment of fabs.