In the early days no-one knew what a semiconductor or a chip was.
So...I just told people I worked in electronics....then they'd ask me if I could work on their TV.
Those were the days.
Never waste a good crisis
SMH
why does the gov have to subsidize??? why do they have to fu ck with the marketplace?
Are they doing the same for the oil and gas industries to get them pumping?
It does not help that the primary suppliers of Industrial NEON gas (required for semiconductor production) are located in Ukraine (Mariupol & Odessa) and that the Russians/Chinese possibly could control most of the world’s Industrial Neon in a couple weeks.
rhetorical question
The left’s solution to every problem is to throw government money at it. A better solution would be to place heavy tariffs on foreign competition. But nooooo....we can’t do that.
It was a shortage at first. Now, it’s China actively trying to destabilize the US
Blue State Semiconductor Mfg bailout (NY, CA, OR) - bump for later...
Ever read Ghost Fleet?
All this WEAK A$$ administration can do is IDENTIFY existing problems.
They have nary a clue in terms of SOLVING them.
Tell me what happened when President MAGA Trump was in office and we/US didn’t make enough ventilators?
China isn’t even close to being a leader in semiconductors. It is Japan and Taiwan for DRAM memory, Singapore for flash memory, and Taiwan for microprocessors... The problem is that the governments of those countries greased the skids to make those industries what they are today, while the USA took a more laissez-faire approach in the nineties and drove the industry away. It is true that there is higher value in design (Nvidia, Apple) than in the actual manufacturing of chips, but we are now exposed to the supply chain crisis. Trump was right to make our critical industries more protected domestically.