The entire modern world is in the hands of the US.



These few countries that you see in this table next to the United States were able to launch electronics industries in their countries with technologies imported from the United States.
It's really funny that nearly 80 years have passed since the first ICs were created, but 99% of the countries in the world still don't have such technology.
Unlike the technologies of a few hundred years ago, the technologies of the modern world are all secret, and most of them are in the hands of America.

 

The world's largest chip maker reported record revenue in the last quarter of 2024, adding some support to the simmering artificial intelligence investment story.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM) (TW:2330) logged October to December quarterly revenue of NT$868.5 billion, or $26 billion, based on MarketWatch's calculations of the company's monthly revenues. That beats a revenue forecast of NT$854 billion, compiled from a FactSet poll of analysts.

And that's just chips. A CPU is useless chip without a display and user interface.Monitors, phones, TV's even cars now all require LED/LCD/OLED display screens. So where are all the US companies and factories that produce displays??

 

Unfortunately, the facts cannot be stated because there is a possibility of political interpretation.

Let me just say that it is completely dependent on the US. Companies operating in Taiwan are not local companies and benefit from American capital and technology. Now, why America has brought its electronics companies to Southeast Asia (Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan, Honk Kong, etc ...) is a purely political and topological issue, and it's better not to discuss it.

What do you think are inside these things? What controls these components?

It's better not to continue because the semiconductor industry is a highly political issue. Maybe the topmost one because everything works by it.

 

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ChatGPT on that topic:

 

They emigrated to Asia or China/Taiwan because of the high labor costs. China was the workbench for the USA.

But the Chinese were hardworking and intelligent and took over the market.
They usually have better training and copied everything they could.

The wage structure used to look like this:
- Africa $50 wage per month
- China $500 per month
- Europe and America $1500 - $2500 per month

So where do they produce? In low-wage countries, of course.
In addition, there are countries like Singapore, India (software & IT), Vietnam and others.

 

A significant reason because is TSM is incredibly special at what they do. Its not that people havent tried to export the model elsewhere, it's just they're very skilled.

The world has Shuji Nakamura to thank for that. An interesting video with some good science.