We are tied to ASML and TSMC and to an extent to the likes of NVIDIA .

As cost of innovation in the industry soars, you are bound to end up with a monopoly or at best an oligopoly who will collude.

Competitors get acquired or fully fail when their research is not successful .

It is just as true in pharma and healthcare.

Like it or not in tech we are stuck with no real choice.

There’s a difference between dependencies beeded for growth and dependencies needed for continued operations. I can still watch my dvds, but every streaming operator that does sales happily takes away digital movies I “bought”