[Krafty123]

Wrong, it will take a year or two at the least too build new fabs. AMD (fabs in Austin & Dresden, as well as outsourcing to IBM) will get all their business in the meantime. Nobody has the excess capacity to pick up the slack.

[hedgetrimmer]

it will take a year or two at the least too build new fabs

Which shows that even with government guarantees, outsourcing to communist countries is a bad idea all around.

[harpseal]

My point is that the decions to put fabrication plants in China was a decision that had some inherent risks . A portion of those risks are picked up by the US taxpayer. if the fabrication plant in China is nationalized then Intel is indemnified financially by the US taxpayer. As ro where more chips will be produced? Who knows? By the time there is such nationalization there may no longer be those fabs in Austin and Dresden and IBM may have moved its facilities to China also so they can compete.