Even cheap Taiwanese silicon can perform well with a sufficient amount of
AmericanChinese engineering.FIFY
So American engineering laundered through Chinese corporate espionage. Got it.
Jürgen Schmidhuber: German
Geoffrey Hinton: British
Yoshua Bengio: Canadian
Yann LeCun: French
The giants on which this tech is based weren't very American.
The main American contribution was to make it practical and throw gigantic compute power at it.