Regarding the line “US will continue to manufacture computer chips”, don’t forget Texas Instruments, NXP and onsemi (Motorola spinoff).
None of those are making anything better than about 12nm, IIRC. Intel is the closest to be able to match TSMC’s 3 and 5nm processes and catch up to them on the 1.*nm processes They were stuck on 10 and 14 for the longest time due to corporate stupidity and NIH syndrome. For those that don’t know, the smaller the chip features (the ‘nanonmeter’ or ‘nm’ number, lower is better), the less power the chip consumes, the more powerful the chip is, and the physically smaller it is - as a general rule.
Next step for Intel is to be able to get a foundry to the point where they can make our secure (military use) chips at volume - we only have two secure foundries in the US and they have huge backorders and long lead times. Neither is really able to crank out the volume of an Intel foundry.
One other thing we desperately need to secure is the at this time Dutch-only lithography technology that allows chips of this technology level to be made. Everyone that’s not on the naughty list is using their tech to get these chips made, and it’s the key technology - the machines are only made in Europe. We need to have our own production facilities here and we need to have our own R&D for these. A hostile or co-opted Europe could see the Russians or Chinese getting these machines. It’s as critical as when Toshiba decided to sell the Russians those CNC machines and all of a sudden the entire Russian fleet (especially the submarines) got orders of magnitude quieter - only worse.
Elon will also have his say, putting chip design, AI assisted iterative evolution, and fabrication all under one roof...
I was talkng about state-of-the-art computer chips (CPU, GPU, NPU etc.).
From DDG search:
[Texas Instruments] focus is on developing analog chips and embedded processors, which account for more than 80% of its revenue. TI also produces digital light processing (DLP) technology ...
NXP Semiconductors N.V. is a Dutch semiconductor manufacturing and design company with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Onsemi is a leading supplier of discrete and power modules, power management, sensors, wireless connectivity, signal conditioning, motor control, custom and ASSP, interfaces, timing, logic and memory products. Explore their products by technology, market, solution and design.