Get a PhD in some kind of esoteric field like chemical kinetics and then spend a decade learning about oxide surface conditioning under someone who spent their life working on it.

None of this stuff is published (externally) and there are no discussion forums or stack overflows to help you either. You need to get through academia, prove yourself, and then you can start working on a chance to get access to the trade secrets that make it possible.

After all that you will be placed as a researcher on a handful of steps in the multi-thousand step process of making SOTA wafers. And probably not make crazy money, but at this point, you're not in it for the money anyway.

Realistically, identify the next technology that will need such wizards and get into a PhD program to research that technology.

I don't think that's allowed under the terms of the x86/x86_64 cross-license deal with AMD.

That's why, for example, any meaningful collaboration between Intel and Nvidia under this partnership has to be released in the form of an Intel product using Nvidia tech, rather than an Nvidia product using Intel tech.

Maybe all the engineers, but not the executives who created this problem to begin with

What I find somewhat humorous: AMD originally wanted to acquire Nvidia, but walked away when Jensen apparently insisted on becoming the CEO of the merged company.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/insider-says...

I wonder how AMD would have fared against Intel post-Conroe if Jensen was CEO. They were behind but still competitive until the Bulldozer flop, only recovering with Zen (and even then it took a few generations for Zen to mature).

> The only power non-origin nations/entities have is via leveraging their ability to do business in the region and/or their local holdings.

Which is absolutely enormous, so this distinction is splitting hairs.