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Well, in the U.S. and Europe people who actually produce something are hindered by bureaucrats and ideologues.

It is no wonder that valuable knowledge moves to Asia.

Or you know, look at the pattern. All the companies that are succeeding are run by engineers at head, be it AMD, ARM, Apple, Google, Microsoft (soon to be going full speed into their own chip designs on the down-low because qualcomm is sputtering), etc.

The companies like Boeing and Intel are failing because MBAs with no engineering backgrounds completed their coups in the last decade and have purged any engineering promotions in their orgs. They are entirely 100% profit milking companies now.

Funny, ARM, AMD, and Apple seem to be having no issues. Maybe they should change the company name to Antel?

To be fair to OP all of these companies outsourced production to Asia.

ARM takes it further and just licenses its IP, leaving to its licensees the decision of whether to outsource production to Asia.

Not all necessarily outsource to Asia. I think STMicro and Infineon still produce some ARM microcontrollers (microcontrollers; these are not smartphone CPUs) in Europe.

Not exactly.. ARM doesn't really produce their own chips and there are manufacturers that use ARM cores that produce chips in the EU (ST, Infinion and NXP as well I think) and US (TI). AMD still has GlobalFoundries produce things for them (and they have fabs in the US and in Germany).

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