Could not agree more, ghost.  I've been a fan of this idea for a long time, the problem is cost.  R&D for semi-conductor design is so expensive and the lithography has become so difficult on newer (tiny) fab sizes that basically only three companies do it now (Intel, Samsung and TSMC).  I don't know how anyone could build the capital and intellectual talent to build fast chips without government sabotaging their efforts. As usual, it's going to come down to either Trump/Team Q fixing this or an entire legion of citizens are going to have to unify and get very angry.