Resource Scarcity Reshapes Competitive Landscape

As technological advancement matures, competitive advantage shifts from innovation capacity to control and allocation of scarce resources—capital, manufacturing capacity, energy, and talent. Early movers' technological advantages are progressively eroded by latecomers through resource concentration and policy support, triggering market restructuring.

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• The AI Gold Rush Enters the "Mining Equipment" Stage: Whoever Controls Energy and Capacity Controls the Future

  When OpenAI and DeepSeek have proven that large language model architectures can be replicated, the real moat is no longer algorithms—it's the capital and electricity to deploy 50 data centers within 3 years. The competitive nature between TSMC and Intel has fundamentally changed.