My understanding is that 1 company in Taiwan makes the greatest chips in the world and no one else can replicate them. How is that possible?
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Man. I wanted to know about these top secret amazing Taiwanese potato chips and/or French fries.
Like other people said, they’re simply the most advanced right now in terms of practical semiconductor manufacturing. You start running into a LOT of problems at the insanely small scales modern chips work at. Companies have a lot of trade secrets and/or patents related to ways of working around those problems. So either you need to pay to license their tech, or spend a lot of time and money figuring the not-publicly-known bits out yourself. Plus, building a modern semiconductor fab (or upgrading one to work on the latest kinds of chips) costs billions. So there’s a high barrier to entry even if you know what you’re doing.
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