The downside is that it's sometimes easier and cheaper to just pay off the class and keep doing it.

Given that, I hardly think that 'decoy sims' are much of a stretch.

... followed by lots more words that don't support this premise.

Be a Warren Buffet and buy for keeps, and obviously you can do very well for yourself if you choose wisely.

Not sure that TSMC would want to do that either! We're probably their biggest market, even allowing for China.

> Isn’t that basically “stop buying high technology” to a large degree?

I think you're right, to an extent, at leastt in the near term.

However, we do have (and especially used to have) various fabbing here in the States, from Samsung to Intel. Especially the latter has been neglected, but these changes would probably accelerate on-shoring and perhaps bring some of it back here.

Don't forget that TSMC is in a country that is probably going to go through some significant instability in the next few years. From a business continuity perspective, we'd need to consider availability and supply chain management with the strong possibility of a major vendor being located in the middle of a hot warzone.

(The movie inspired reality, not the other way around.)

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/north-hollywood-shootout

But your point still stands, because it goes both ways.

And everyone knows that ChatGPT Pro is exclusively powered by capuchin monkeys.