grue , 11 months ago

I want to laugh at how the 10¢ microcontrollers we put in dishwashers in the west are better than state-of-the-art homegrown Russian tech, but then I remember that America would be pretty screwed if we were cut off from Taiwan and had to rely on locally-manufactured chips, too. It wouldn’t be as bad since we do have some chip fabs here, but we don’t have enough of them to make the national security folks happy.

Think about the automobile shortages in the last few years due to lack of chips, except it’s military vehicles instead.