Except Intel, all the hardware is produced in Taiwan or abroad at TSMC.
Samsung and Intel ( + all others) buy their fabs at ASML.
Cars: my preference is still German ( and Toyota). Tesla is really low build quality and it's claims for FSD ( as it's "technological innovation") is a joke. But, Waymo is ahead though.
Fabs aren't really a realm of competition with China. Leading fabs are in Germany (GlobalFoundaries in Dresden), Taiwan (TSMC's primary fabs), South Korea (Samsung) and even the US (GlobalFoundaries) and Singapore (GlobalFoundaries).
Samsung (South Korea), TSMC (Taiwan) and Intel (US, Israel) locate their fabs in small countries that are heavily dependent on the US for ensuring their neighbors do not attack.
Two of those three (TSMC & Intel) are building fabs in Arizona due to political pressure, hefty subsidies and geological stability of the area (reducing the number of defects in chips).
The funny thing is that the key machines to produce chips are built in Germany and Netherlands. Not in Korea, not on Taiwan.
The robots that assemble the electronic circuits are also largely built in EU. (And, of course, in Japan, too.)
What made Apple to order their iPhone production from a Chinese company was not the availability of relevant hardware elsewhere; certainly the US has it. It was the nimbleness of that company, the willingness to move fast and make things available fast. Paradoxically, less red tape and less corporate shenanigans. Cheap labor? Maybe, but it did not appear to be the major factor, and wages at Foxconn were / are not as low, by EU standards even.
And this is compared to US; in Germany, things would be even slower, to say nothing of France (which is a real industrial powerhouse nevertheless).
The majority, really? TSMC's fabs are in Taiwan, using ASML machines from the Netherlands. Much of their chips run ARM, from Cambridge. As I look at my tabs, I see Google Maps (invented by an Australian in Sydney), and Spotify (from Sweden).
The world is far, far, bigger than the USA; and as an Australian, I'd say it's extremely pretentious or naive to think the US has a 'majority' of cutting edge tech.
it's not. South Korea has fabs as well and Japan too in Asia. China is also making progress in developing the own nodes (with TSMC's help for older nodes), and Europe and the US have significant capacity at higher nm nodes. TSMC is getting a lot of press because they manufacture the leading edge nodes at the moment, that are used in high profile products.
There are really 2 tiers of semiconductor manufacturing, and for the advanced nodes Taiwans TSMC is in the lead with Samsung close behind, and Intel is lagging. The less advanced (aka older, larger) nodes manufacturing capability are more spread out.
America is home to Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Micron, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Apple, Applied Materials, Lam Research, KLA, Cymer, and most of the other most important fabless houses and IDMs outside of Korea. TSMC and Samsung are both building large foundry fabs in the US. Why don’t you stick with opining in what you know.
TSMC is Taiwanese, China will takeover Taiwan in the next 5-10 years, and Intel's manufacturing processes are ancient. The future when US/EU can't produce our own chips is rapidly approaching.
Perhaps it is because all the latest Intel fabs are in the U.S. in Hillsboro, Oregon. Other foundries like TSMC benefit from the ecosystem and cheaper cost in East Asia ? i.e. they can afford to make more mistakes than Intel can if it is cheaper to do so.
There's no Taiwanese silicon industrial complex, there's TSMC. The rest of Taiwanese fabs are irrelevant. Intel is the clear #3 (and looks likely-ish to overtake Samsung? We'll see).
Samsung and Intel ( + all others) buy their fabs at ASML.
Cars: my preference is still German ( and Toyota). Tesla is really low build quality and it's claims for FSD ( as it's "technological innovation") is a joke. But, Waymo is ahead though.
Planes: Well, Airbus, duh.
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