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They’ve been trying to move chip fabricators to the US for decades. The education system is shit here and we don’t have the talent. Also it’s really difficult to get the fabricators right and built for a reasonable cost. So yeah. Your non-iphone is gonna be pricey.

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i mean, we’re literally building fabs under the CHIPS act right now.

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Remember when the US government gave the telecoms billions to build gigabit internet infrastructure nationwide and they fuckin just didn’t do it?

Pepperidge Farm remembers. Show me a working fab as a result of that act after Trump and Co manage to not fuck it up and then your comment might have some merit. Note: the coming brain drain will not be kind to the USA.

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Remember when the US government gave the telecoms billions to build gigabit internet infrastructure nationwide and they fuckin just didn’t do it?

me too, i also remember in 1930, when the great depression happened. I don’t see the relevance here though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act#Impact

shit in r&d is not like throwing money at big corpo and hoping they do what you want. If you don’t turn out results in r&d, it’s a dead field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act#Project_announcements

plenty of project announcements, idk if you think the government can’t like, build buildings or something, even though they can make the interstate highway system. But in defense of the CHIPS, building fabs is really fucking hard, costs billions of dollars, and takes many, many years.

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The CHIPS act? You mean one of the things the Biden admin bragged about?

Good thing the incoming administration isn’t petty enough to nuke anything associated with the previous administration…

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You mean one of the things the Biden admin bragged about?

yeah.

Good thing the incoming administration isn’t petty enough to nuke anything associated with the previous administration…

that would be unfortunate.

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