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The production of cutting-edge semiconductors requires a global supply chain. The US's main contribution to that supply chain is (very expensive) software requi
by hollerith 1y ago
The production of cutting-edge semiconductors requires a global supply chain. The US's main contribution to that supply chain is (very expensive) software required in the design of an IC.
The US is second in manufacturing and far ahead of numbers 3 and 4 (Germany and Japan IIRC).
- heavyset_go 1y agoAnyone can write software, the idea that we're uniquely capable in that domain is foolhardy
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- MostlyStable 1y agoAnyone can do any of those above industries as well, what's your point?
- heavyset_go 1y agoSee the grandparent's comment about global supply chains. Everyone requires everyone else in those industries, no one does it all on their own. I posit that software has no such supply chain dependency, literally anyone can do it, and thinking the US is unique in their ability to produce software isn't accurate.
- parineum 1y agoWhy doesn't everyone else simply start their own silocon valley!?
- heavyset_go 1y agoByteDance, Alibaba, Baidu, three of Silicon Valley's most famous companies responsible for uniquely American successes like TikTok.
- parineum 1y ago> literally anyone can do it Doesn't it seem odd to you that only the two largest economies in the world are doing something so lucrative if literally anyone can do it?
- heavyset_go 1y agoI only need to list one other example to illustrate American exceptionalism is not an exception.
- renewiltord 1y ago> The US's main contribution to that supply chain is (very expensive) software required in the design of an IC. EUV tech is from American universities, licensed by choice by the US Government. In a world where Nikon was a much smaller optics player, they'd be the ones building EUV machines, and we'd be pretending Japan was the source of this tech. The US's main contribution is doing the research required to make this whole thing possible.