This is a phenomenon I call cinetrope. Films influence the world which in turn influences film and so on creating a feedback effect.
For example, we have certain films to thank for an escalation in the tactics used by bank robbers which influenced the creation of SWAT which in turn influenced films like Heat and so on.
Actually, Heat was the movie that inspired heavily armed bank robbers to rob the Bank of America in LA
(The movie inspired reality, not the other way around.)
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/north-hollywood-shootout
But your point still stands, because it goes both ways.
Isn’t that basically “stop buying high technology” to a large degree?
Not sure that TSMC would want to do that either! We're probably their biggest market, even allowing for China.
> Isn’t that basically “stop buying high technology” to a large degree?
I think you're right, to an extent, at leastt in the near term.
However, we do have (and especially used to have) various fabbing here in the States, from Samsung to Intel. Especially the latter has been neglected, but these changes would probably accelerate on-shoring and perhaps bring some of it back here.
Don't forget that TSMC is in a country that is probably going to go through some significant instability in the next few years. From a business continuity perspective, we'd need to consider availability and supply chain management with the strong possibility of a major vendor being located in the middle of a hot warzone.