I love how we have to protect Taiwan against Chinese annexation because the World relies on their chips, but when extremely large corporations basically take away the World’s supply of chips it is supposed to be fine.
At least with the Crypto and now the AI craze we are at least getting used to shortages from the eventual war of the chips
How about instead of building concentration camps, we build chip factories, and employ all the people we’re abusing? Then they can spend their earnings, and pay taxes, and stimulate the economy.
Or we can lock them up, create a chip shortage, destroy otherwise viable companies, and keep our economy limping along, satisfied with the false metric of the Stock Market as a score.
How about instead of building concentration camps, we build chip factories, and employ all the people we’re abusing? Then they can spend their earnings, and pay taxes, and stimulate the economy.
Not sure if there are sarcasm tags here, but the capital costs for a leading edge chip factory are unreal. It took a transition from a dictatorship to a democracy, a lot of blurring between capitalism and a planned economy, decades of concentrated investment, and luck for TSMC to get where they are.
As a national effort in the US, it’d make the Apollo Program seem trivial. It’d be a bit like saying “lets turn all the immigrants into astronauts.”
Not that the immigration situation isn’t utterly cruel and ridiculous and that we should be bringing these people in with open arms, but one can’t just will chipmaking into existance quickly. It’s extremely difficult. It’s why the potential collapse of Intel is such a calamity, as it would be almost impossible to rebuild, and why the atrophy of Global Foundries can’t be reversed as much as Europe would like to.
Yeah, I wouldn’t give the current admin any ideas. It’d be less of a “employ all the people” and more of a “work will set you free” type of arrangement.
I love how we have to protect Taiwan against Chinese annexation because the World relies on their chips, but when extremely large corporations basically take away the World’s supply of chips it is supposed to be fine.
At least with the Crypto and now the AI craze we are at least getting used to shortages from the eventual war of the chips
How about instead of building concentration camps, we build chip factories, and employ all the people we’re abusing? Then they can spend their earnings, and pay taxes, and stimulate the economy.
Or we can lock them up, create a chip shortage, destroy otherwise viable companies, and keep our economy limping along, satisfied with the false metric of the Stock Market as a score.
Not sure if there are sarcasm tags here, but the capital costs for a leading edge chip factory are unreal. It took a transition from a dictatorship to a democracy, a lot of blurring between capitalism and a planned economy, decades of concentrated investment, and luck for TSMC to get where they are.
As a national effort in the US, it’d make the Apollo Program seem trivial. It’d be a bit like saying “lets turn all the immigrants into astronauts.”
Not that the immigration situation isn’t utterly cruel and ridiculous and that we should be bringing these people in with open arms, but one can’t just will chipmaking into existance quickly. It’s extremely difficult. It’s why the potential collapse of Intel is such a calamity, as it would be almost impossible to rebuild, and why the atrophy of Global Foundries can’t be reversed as much as Europe would like to.
We tried that, then PEDOnald took away that factory insourcing money.
Yeah, I wouldn’t give the current admin any ideas. It’d be less of a “employ all the people” and more of a “work will set you free” type of arrangement.
I think they are gonna do that without any tips from BarneyPiccolo
Coming to a potato farm near you
Potatoes.
Chips.
I see the pattern.
I’m off to stock up on hash browns.
Then Lambo.
Hashes… Chips…
You may be onto something here. I’m going all in on SPUD.