So tell me about Intel…
And as I said clearly, you can’t just rock up to Hsinchu and hire away their engineers easily. It doesn’t work like that.
Anyway what happened to the data centers in space ? Is that so 2025?
With enough money, drive, the right people and technology it can be done… there is no secret magic that Taiwan holds.
Well there are secrets it holds.
The news is even better than that.
Tesla is the world’s biggest electric car manufacturer once again, after its delivery numbers went up in the first quarter and its main competitor, China’s BYD, recorded a double-digit dip.
The American company led by Elon Musk delivered 358,023 EVs in the first three months of 2026, a 6.5% increase over the same period last year. Meanwhile, BYD, which last year took home the crown and made headlines the world over, had a rough first quarter, with 310,389 pure EVs reaching new customers, a 25% decrease year over year.
And according to X, a BYD factory in China is now on fire. 
But how many of those were sold to the US govt? 
More seriously, this will be a trend for all EVs with gas prices the way they are! 
Yeah the last person I’d wanna work for is Elon.
https://finimize.com/content/tesla-is-building-its-own-ai-chip-fab-talent-base-in-taiwan
I know several people now that have worked at Tesla, all of them tops in their field and none of them spent more than few months because they could work literally anywhere else for same or better pay and both have a life and not have to deal with all the Elon-related bullshit.
There’s been a serious problem with “brain drain” there for some years now, (just like Microsoft, and Google, and Facebook, and… etc).
Filipinas
They’re exported to everywhere.
Those secret processes are called “patents.”
The U.S. invented semiconductors. Taiwan’s contribution was to make semiconductor manufacturing more efficient. As far as I know Taiwan has never invented a whole new field of technology such as semiconductors. That’s what separates the men from the boys.
'Merica fuck yeah !
Apart from ASML in the Netherlands (and Philips a long time before that), TSMC and their suppliers invented many advanced semicon processes including CoWaS. Americans can stfu moaning about TSMC, every week I see a report on US media saying they want to to ‘bring advanced chips back to US’ bah sorry mate those advanced chips over the last couple of decades were NEVER made nor invented in the US so they can’t go back to where they weren’t invented.
Patents aren’t secret.
Just like how Italians invented pizza but Americans make it better.
Invent advanced semicon processes = make semiconductor manufacturing more efficient.
The U.S. invented another whole new field of technology recently, large language model AI, and will undoubtedly fail to capitalize on it fully too in the long run.
I hope Taiwan invents a whole new field of technology one day and joins the big boys for once.
I’m pretty sure a lot of the chips were invented in the US, advanced chips are manufactured in Taiwan, but not designed.
And as for that video, the pyramid on the thumbnail shows a lot of US companies. Most of those companies aren’t Taiwanese at all. Taiwan uses imported equipment and imported materials and imported labour to fabricate imported designs for external companies.
TLDR: Taiwan is great at perfecting other countries’ technology.