If you had to acquire new ASICs to 51% attack Bitcoin, then there is much more than money at play, the scarcer commodity would be getting the required allocations from TSMCs fab to make the vast quantities of high end chips required. This is the hardest part about making Bitcoin Miners at scale.

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do most of the world's SHA256 ASICs really come from one island in Asia that is constantly on the verge of being invaded

Samsung make some in Korea as well but the vast majority are from Taiwan.