alt Hacker NewsSure, but then that would mean they can now take those chips and sell them to Musk, Zuck, or Dario at inflated prices instead.
And I'm pretty sure any CEO with at least a bachelors degree knows about the De beers diamonds story, so, I really find it hard to believe they will struggle with the concept of maintaining their artifical scarcity/demand.
If 30% of their chips were going to China and now they have to stop that, it means they will have an excess supply of chips and the prices would go down instead of up.