GPUs aren't built in the US, though. I wonder, what percentage of all the stuff in a typical datacenter is actually made in the US
GPUs aren't built in the US, though. I wonder, what percentage of all the stuff in a typical datacenter is actually made in the US
> GPUs aren't built in the US, though. I wonder, what percentage of all the stuff in a typical datacenter is actually made in the US
Does that matter? So many things these days aren't physically made in the US. So US companies don't get the profits and aren't needed?
The actual "made in" part is a small fraction of the total earnings. See how much an iPhone costs to make vs how much it gets sold for.
And now look at how making iPhones in China helped to grow the whole Chinese electronics industry, as opposed to inflating some virtual numbers for the US
> helped to grow the whole Chinese electronics industry
Why do you want it? It wouldn't have grown in the US. The protests would have erupted before anything happened. There's huge amounts of contamination, pollution, deaths, low wages, over-work, etc...
Also US focused on designing the electronics and the ecosystem around it. Are you saying there's no industry around AMD, Broadcom, Qualcomm, etc that are fabless but hire vast amounts of people?
> as opposed to inflating some virtual numbers for the US
You have App Store / SaaS (i.e. developers) and a lot more.
Would you prefer an average developer salary vs below-minimum US wage factory assembler?
It's not just virtual numbers. Apple's investors and employees (mostly in California) keep about half of the price of every iPhone sold, which is more than people in China get or keep.
And now look how the "virtual numbers" allow the USA to drag the rest of the world through the mud on a nosering.
The USA was the winner in all this, but apparently the people don't feel it. What might have gone wrong? (hint: wealth distribution, not manufacturing)
Well, the US definitely is dragging the rest of the world, the question is where and whether it's somewhere the rest of the world really wants to go. I think, we'll see soon enough
The margins collected by Nvidia end up in the US. And Nvidia and its employees get paid in the US. Only a small part of the revenue is outside the US.