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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (26359)	2/24/2008 6:42:03 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

And chip companies are able to keep their costs down because their supplies have a world wide market (and they aren't all American), and the chip companies make revenue from a world wide market so they can keep investing in new equipment. And computers (and even more so consumer electronic devices) are not just CPUs, if nothing else but CPUs changed the benefit from new CPU technology would be greatly reduced. And international competition drives improvement in components and finished products. Simply put without international trade we would have neither as great of improvement in computers and consumer electronics, nor as much reduction in costs. Its not all about Moore's law, and international trade even plays a part in Moore's law (which is an observation of a trend, not some natural law)