<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fabfabfab</author><text>Having worked in Fab, the supply chain is already in the US+EU+Japan. About the only change in last 5 years or so is Intel&amp;#x27;s ability to compete in lithography process and get sufficient yield to stay competitive in pricing. Lithography is one of the 400 or so steps in Fab processing, but arguably the most critical and a bottle neck. TSMC does not have a lead in every single of these 400 steps, in fact quite the opposite.&lt;p&gt;Anytime someone says &amp;quot;impossible&amp;quot;, I would take that opinion with a grain of salt.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guai888</author><text>‘Impossible&amp;#x27;:TSMC founder Morris Chang on US dreams for onshoring chip supply chain&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.taiwannews.com.tw&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;4327937&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.taiwannews.com.tw&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;4327937&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Morris Chang spent 25 years (1958–1983) at Texas Instruments.He knows US very well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas</title><url>https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/samsung-plans-17-billion-chip-plant-in-taylor-texas/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justapassenger</author><text>You have to take his words with a grain of salt. Without going into politics, it’s impossible to talk about TSMC without geopolitical context.&lt;p&gt;It’s essential to TSMC survival for their production to physically stay focused in Asia.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guai888</author><text>‘Impossible&amp;#x27;:TSMC founder Morris Chang on US dreams for onshoring chip supply chain&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.taiwannews.com.tw&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;4327937&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.taiwannews.com.tw&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;4327937&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Morris Chang spent 25 years (1958–1983) at Texas Instruments.He knows US very well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas</title><url>https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/samsung-plans-17-billion-chip-plant-in-taylor-texas/</url></story>