Please don't post flamebait on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

China already figured out RAM and SSD chips manufacturing. Even Apple wanted to make a deal with YMTC and CXMT:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/is-apple-set-to-turn-to-china-...

Both were struck by US sanctions.

Doesn't need to be general semicondustor manufacturing. Just RAM will do it. And that would spell the end for Micron and maybe Hynix. Samsung is sufficiently diversified.

That's the whole list.

The wages of the Taiwanese workers aren't that different. At least be consistent.

The point is that new entrants are less likely to play the cartel game as they have been excluded and would rather cash in on the business opportunity of making and selling as much as they can.