Half the reason US started the semi war against PRC was because they knew it's pretty much that simple provided work force is culturally compatible. Ditto with

Half the reason US started the semi war against PRC was because they knew it's pretty much that simple provided work force is culturally compatible. Ditto with foreign fab projects expanding in PRC at the time - without requirement of crazy subsidies to draw them in (big funds was for domestic indy). Industry assumed, PRC with right equipment and a few years of poaching TSMC, Samsung and whatever incumbent talent would be sufficient to get ball rolling. SKR basically did that from TW talent. IMO US can replicate east asian fabs quickly if it can replicate east asian work culture because that's the only way east asian fab owners knows how to run said fabs. They're not interested changing, because they weren't interested in expanding to US in the first place, since the business case never made sense. Huawei (possibly SMIC) 7nm did it in a few years with hands tie behind back.