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So ability to PRODUCE chips is overarching. Designing IP is a huge and deep industry.

But in tracking a dependency graph, OF COURSE you need to grow silicon ingots from scratch so they won't come with some 3nm pre-fabricated spy hardware hidden deep inside, which for all analysis means will look like deep crystal defects near the back of the wafer....

Independent, fully in-house chip manufacturing is the key to future security.