If we're being honest, no country will.<p>> ITIF’s report found that, quite frankly, this stuff is hard.
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> "Fabricating semiconductors is perhaps the most complex manufacturing activity humanity undertakes," wrote the study authors.<p>These processes are trade secrets requiring years of expensive iterative R&D. You can't skip over years of internal knowledge building by just throwing money at it. Just because the ruling/capital class wants all this chip fabrication infrastructure doesn't mean civilization is obligated or even capable of making it happen.