AI shows rather clearly that access to the newest, shiniest, and most expensive stuff gives you qualitative, not just quantitative advantage.
If you think that China alone will be able to duplicate, let alone surpass, what the whole of North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are able to achieve in chip manufacture, then I have a bridge to sell.
> There is absolutely nothing except first-to-market advantage that leads to American computer technology being "superior" at all.
what TSMC and Samsung do is not just being first, they also can do that stuff at scale. So, just because a lab in china is able to make a 6 or even 4 nm chip doesn't mean they are able to make millions of wafers of the things every year, with reject rates in single digit percentages.
And "The West" is not standing still