I don't know the reasons Intel has fallen behind in fabrication technology. I'm sure its complicated and comes down to our braindead decisions to not put market protection in place all those years ago when Asia undercut us on anything and everything in order to grow their economies and industry.
I do know that we should do everything we can to nurture them back to being #1.
Taiwan and TSMC obviously used a militant slave labor force, highly subsidized, highly unregulated, and unfair business by basically undercutting everyone else because it didn't matter to them when they were never going to be allowed to fail no matter how much loss they would never admit to.
Now over the decades they have built up a knowledge base and workflow that Intel will not easily catch.
Our best strategy should be to get American companies to buy from American foundries, even if it means a struggle of being a generation behind.
Because then we can build up the knowledge and workflow and hopefully breakthroughs in technology to become the global leader.
It's clear Taiwan treats TSMC as a strategic treasure that they will not lose by their own actions. They were never going to allow an American foundry to run smoothly.
Our country needs a serious wake up call and to start playing by the same rules that everyone else plays by. We need to stop thinking that just throwing money at foreigners will get them to play by the rules we want. Knowledge is power and any shortfalls we have in it, we need to work harder and invest in. Even if there is no immediate satisfaction or profit. We need to be willing to subsidize industrys that other nations subsidize so that we can fulfill our countrys needs, even if financially its a loss. Thats what taxes should be for, providing the things we need. We need semiconductors, and the best ones. And for security reasons, we need to make them domestically of our own design. Period no compromise.