"nearly everyone has"?
I doubt more than 30% owns their advanced hardware e.g hardware created after 2017
I doubt more than 30% owns their advanced hardware e.g hardware created after 2017
Between 1.4 and 1.5 billion cell phones were sold in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 (projected), representing roughly another 6 billion cell phones. That is, there is roughly one cell phone per person in the world "created after 2017."
Obviously, a significant number of people bought more than one cell phone in that time period; but, offsetting that, the average cellphone is sold more than once due to the used market. While it's hard to project this to actual estimate saturation of cell phones "created after 2017", it's very hard to imagine a case that the 6 billion phones from 2019 on don't represent at least another 10% of the population.
There is also advanced hardware besides cell phones.
Less than 30% of the world population owning hardware created after 2017 doesn't pass the sniff test.
That said, MediaTek is not the greatest example here -- they're fabless, and most of what they design is fabbed by, you guessed it, TSMC. The better counter-example would be Samsung, who fabs at least some of their own chips.
No, I meant TSMC's advanced tech