“Whether we like it or not, we will remain dependent on the United States of America for a long time,” Merz said at a business conference in Berlin.
In the end, the 45-minute-long meeting belonged to the “peaceful” category. Trump told Merz, “I’m friends with you”, and they appeared to bond over a shared dislike of Angela Merkel, the former chancellor and Merz’s political rival.
Guess what countries ASML and TSMC are from.
Neither of these companies design or sell the CPUs or GPUs we rely on. China has been trying to build a comparable CPU for years and is still years behind the curve.