The problem is that we (USA) used to have 90% of all chip design and production.
Now we have less than 10%-15% of it because it was cheaper to outsource it to Taiwan, Korea or Japan. We created the problem ourselves by shunning manufacturing and wanting to be a "knowledge-service economy" which only sounds good in the abstract but you still need to have the hardware in trustable form and even worse: most innovation (easily 80% or more) in anything but especially in computers, only comes from innovation of the manufacturing process, and only AFTER that does any other innovation (e.g. software) FOLLOW - software is the tail, not the dog!
Now we have less than 10%-15% of it because it was cheaper to outsource it to Taiwan, Korea or Japan. We created the problem ourselves by shunning manufacturing and wanting to be a "knowledge-service economy" which only sounds good in the abstract but you still need to have the hardware in trustable form and even worse: most innovation (easily 80% or more) in anything but especially in computers, only comes from innovation of the manufacturing process, and only AFTER that does any other innovation (e.g. software) FOLLOW - software is the tail, not the dog!