You mean the ones fabricated with European photolithography machines?
I think you missed the GP's point: a lot of so-called "innovation" is crap, providing as much true value as a parasite (maybe one of those lovely ones that will kill you if you try to kill it).
Whether or not an innovation is crap can only be judged in hindsight.
I agree with you. A lot of innovation is indeed crap. But there are times when they are not crap, but brilliant instead.
So these crappy and brilliant innovators are going to move to the whacky societies. It's for Europeans to judge if that is a net loss or a net gain.
Interesting discussion recently, I forget if it was on here. Those lithography machines are built with the worst spaghetti code imaginable and the engineering is so close to black magic that development is painfully slow. In other words, that space is ripe for disruption and there might be some attempts at that in the near future.
It sounds like "spaghetti code" is not actually the competitive disadvantage software engineers imagine it to be.
I say that as a software engineer.
Pretty sure there's a lot more to those machines than software.
> In other words, that space is ripe for disruption and there might be some attempts at that in the near future.
Not because of "spaghetti code," but because of US-led sanctions. China has technical talent, a lot of money, and now motivation to enter that space.