Several years ago, my employer tried to have a leading semiconductor fabricator in Taiwan fabricate our simplest microprocessor, an older, proven design which was being retargeted towards embedded applications. This processor was probably in the class of the Intel Celeron at the time. The Taiwan company could not do it. We had to go back to a U.S. fab.
That's also why Texas Instruments licenses its DLP technology to be built by Samsung.
Huh? TI sells its DLP chips to many consumer electronics companies. TI builds semiconductors, not televisions. It relies on television manufacturers to do that. It is the same way with TI's DSP chips. They are used in a lot of cell phones. But TI is a semiconductor manufacturer, not a cell phone manufacturer.
Lots of foreign automobile companies assemble cars in the United States, not manufacture them.
I hear this all the time, but nobody who says it can define the difference between "assemble" and "manufacture".
Some claim foreign car companies simply ship all of the completed subassemblies to the U.S., bolt them togther here, to avoid tarriffs. I could say, "So what", as it still employs Americans. But looking beyond that, such an approach would increase transportation costs. It would also drive up costs, as most manufacturing has been based on just-in-time suppliers for decades. But, the proof point of this would be the lack of suppliers near the final assembly plant. But a quick look around the Mercedes plant near Tuscaloosa Alabama shows either this is not the case. And Hyundai proves the same, as the suppliers to their new plant in Montgomery AL were built, hired employees, and started manufacturing several months ahead of the main Hyundai plant. They had to be in place for Hyundai to analyze their output before they began manufacture themselves.
Yes, some components like engines are shipped in. But many are not. Toyota has manufactured engines in Huntsville AL for years.
They all do that to help the American worker.
They, like every other free market company, do this to sell more product, make more money, grow their business, and increase their shareholder's wealth.