[Mr. Jeeves]

That is the future of manufacturing - not giant factories, but small, nimble, and highly technologically advanced. The USA will lead the world again with this kind of manufacturing.

The only problem is that every single employee needed will come from the right side of the Bell Curve.

[lepton]

Another problem is that China has been successfully buying or stealing that technology, and embedding its students in the research ( plus the Carter-era tech sharing agreements still in place).