> America ... doesn't hold a monopoly on tech
Certainly seems that way.
Certainly seems that way.
There are a lot of less well known technology giants elsewhere in the world. E.g. ARM from the UK (now owned by Japanese giant SoftBank) has pretty much total domination on the smartphone CPU market (licensing anyway - lots of manufacturing is done by e.g. Samsung of Korea)
My mum will have heard of Facebook and Google, but I guarantee that she and probably most other people's mother's have never ever heard of ARM.
Just one example - countless others.
Sure, our mothers probably haven't heard of ARM but that's more like saying they haven't heard of x86. Our mothers have almost definitely heard of Samsung and Apple, both of whom manufacture a large number of ARM chips.
There's even a decent chance they've heard of a company like Qualcomm that's not as well known as Apple or Samsung.
Edit: Not nvidia. Realised OP was asking for None-US companies
If you wanted to influence a US presidential election, a 100% monopoly on the printing press would be much more useful than a 100% monopoly on zipper manufacturing.
The former is presumably what newspaper opinion writers are worried about.