To me it looks like that the free world and its NIMBYism tends to shift physical fabrication jobs out towards its edges. I've heard that Silicon Valley actually

To me it looks like that the free world and its NIMBYism tends to shift physical fabrication jobs out towards its edges. I've heard that Silicon Valley actually made tons of silicons half a century ago. Japan made rather high-performance CPUs as recent as until 2000s-2010s. Now there are lots more in South Korea, Malaysia/Singapore, East coast Mainland China, and of course Taiwan. Maybe in a decade or two we'll hear about Tibet or Nepalese fabs expanding into Afghanistan or Iran, or maybe something different altogether might happen before that. (btw, Intel actually has a lot of production capacity in the US[1]. The US don't need Taiwan and SK intact for bare minimum survival in an unlikely event of a global thermonuclear war) 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat... 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...