How many countries could manufacture a state-of-the-art smartphone from scratch (raw materials), I wonder? One? Five?
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As far as I can tell it's 5 (in terms of infrastructure and knowledge)
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Which are?
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Sounds right
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SK and Japan
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I count 5. It's an interesting thought experiment when thinking about building cities on Mars. US, China, Japan, South Korea, Germany.
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Curious how you went about your model. Still trying to dig up an *exhaustive* list of raw materials extent in a finished <$100 smartphone, and I have little hope of accounting for all the inputs to intermediate processes (the tooling and facilities I generously assume exist).
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Sure that US and Germany are able to produce quality and quantity from scratch ? I would say 3 asian countries. Practical production knowledge is not any more in EU nor US.
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If you really go down all the way to the raw minerals, I'd bet it's zero. It's probably zero for pretty much any product involving computer components.
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Most difficult task is to manufacture Processors i think only US, China , South Korea and Japan can manufacture them locally
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