The bean counters must be mighty desperate to allow manufacturing to be set up in the US again. This will affect the world market and it will affect geopolitics too. I hope it has a stabilizing effect on markets and a positive effect on foreign relations.
Taiwan is also earthquake prone. If you get a quake, you may as well throw most of the WIP out - can’t have lithography and I’m planters shaking around when you’re trying to make 10 or 20 nm feature size parts.
