Predicting an oversupply any time soon when chips in the leading, middle, and trailing edges are in an unprecedented shortage is like predicting that someday California will have too much housing. I mean, on a long enough timescale, maybe... But that's well into the "being too early is the same as being wrong" territory.
I figure someone much smarter than me ran the numbers and decided it's not worth the cost. And chips being in such shortage for many years would likely be worth the cost.
All of that said, I wish the US gov would sponsor in some way new fabs in the US. It's nearly a national security risk at this point.
Chip companies are making new fabs in the US and the US gov is helping to sponsor them.
[1] https://www.nist.gov/semiconductors/chips-act
[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/business/2022/04/14/intel-neg...
I suppose I should have researched more recently before commenting. The fact that this doesn't make front page national news is mind boggling to me.
(I mean, I think we should make sure Taiwan is never invaded and remains independent, but it's also not great to need to commit forces against a rival nuclear superpower if it does get invaded, given that said rival superpower continuously and loudly proclaims that Taiwan is part of its territory.)