Quote: "And every time it's the same pattern. First it's "hah look they make these cheap inferior copies" then quality improves and gets on par so it changes to "well they just copy our products and then sell them for cheaper because labor costs are much lower" and then when they finally start to innovate and excel everybody is super surprised cause it was just stupid Japanese/Korean/Chinese copying our technology without really understanding it so how could they possibly make something on their own?"

This same pattern exists in Software too... Google with respect to the original Chrome version ("It's just a cheap knock-off of FireFox/Mozilla"), or Microsoft with the earliest versions of Word ("It's just a cheap knock-off of WordPerfect") or Excel ("It's just a cheap knock-off of Lotus 1-2-3"), or even the earliest versions of Windows ("It's just a cheap knock-off of Xerox Alto/PARC or Apple Lisa/early MacIntosh GUI").

History repeats itself in very predictable cycles...

On the flip side, Intel and AMD are sorely in need of some competition... Remember that AMD's constant competition with Intel is one of the key reasons why CPU technology (well, x86-wise!) advanced as fast as it did, and more competitors should mean more technology advancement...