How many chips do you need?
As of this writing, 215 million Americans have been vaccinated. That means a minimum of 215 million chips must have been made.
Okay, by whom? I haven’t tested it, but I’m convinced that calling up any of the big electronics distributors (say, Digi-Key, Mouser, Newark) and asking for 215 million of anything will get their complete attention. (For an order that big, they’ll almost certainly refer you to the manufacturer. But they’ll still remember you — vividly. Even something that only costs $0.001 per unit yields a $215,000 order.)
If the plan is to monitor everyone on earth it’s even more. Worldwide the goal was to vaccinate 70% of the world’s population. We’ll call that .7 * 6 billion people, or 4.2 billion chips.
Whether it’s 215 million chips or 4.2 billion chips, electronics distributors will refer you to manufacturers. That order is simply too big for a distributor — even though they’d love to have it.
Who’s going to make it? This is a hyper-exotic chip, and it requires the absolute best facilities any of them have (remember, we’ve hypothesized the feature size on the chip is 2nm).
No existing chip manufacturer would agree. Let’s consider Intel. To make 215 million such chips — in a few months — would require shutting down the factories that produce high-end CPUs and GPUs. That, in turn, means surrendering market share to their competitors for months.
Which, honestly, is just as well, because to get an existing manufacturer to do it would mean supplying them with the design of the chip, which the GWF wants to keep secret.
But that means the GWF has to build a factory, in secret, and staff it, in secret. A facility like that is going to cost billions — I’d guess 20 billion. And it’s going to require a mountain of specialized equipment, some of which might be export-controlled. If it is export-controlled, the fact that the GWF is buying it will be noted. That’s not good for secrecy. Hiring hundreds or thousands of highly skilled people won’t be easy. That’s asking those people to work, in secret, on a project that they can never discuss, thus putting a gaping hole in their resumes. What happens if, once the task is described to the applicant, they decide they won’t work on it? Who might they tell? The GWF can’t threaten everyone who walks in with death — that’ll leak for certain.
Even if a workable chip could be designed, there’s no way to manufacture it in secret.