We need to get this and other processing facilities up and running at scale ASAP.
These articles largely all say the same thing which is X number of billions of dollars have been designated for the magnet production task and Y company expects to be online in the year Z.
I have yet to see an article that quotes company Z is funded and fully functional and has produced last year’s quantity of required neodymium magnets and shipped them for use by the military.
In other words none of them say the problem is solved. And none of them dare to say that best estimate for achieving production of last year’s requirements of neodymium magnets is 10 to 15 years. It’s 10 to 15 years regardless of what software code is running in what chips because that’s just how long it takes to do if you have all of the ore in one place and ready to start through the processing line.