It's almost like Mitch is married to the chinese.
Posted on 07/14/2022 7:49:04 AM PDT by daniel1212
How big of a factory do we need to supply just the military?
This is not hard people....
Trying to think of the guy’s name. He was a President not too long ago. Sometimes spoke a little rough around the edges, maybe put out some tweets that folks thought were mean, but he got sh*t done. And most of it, pretty much, alone. Especially when Congress, save a small handful, did every thing they could to stab him in the back and obstruct him.
But that guy spoke of this quite often and wanted to bring all the manufacturing back to US soil.
He’s gone though. I hope guys like Kemp and Ducey are happy in the solid help they gave in the endeavor.
And now, many are mad at him because he’s calling out Musk.
It's almost like Mitch is married to the chinese.
We need a reliable source of pure Industrial NEON in order to manufacture semiconductors. Currently the world basically relies on Ukraine, Russia and less importantly China for this critical gas. One of the reasons we need to assist Ukraine is to keep one of largest sources (about 60%) of this gas in somewhat friendly hands. The Russians have already captured one of the two Industrial NEON plants in Ukraine and if they take Odesa they will have seized all of Ukraine’s output.
Industrial NEON is very difficult to refine and there are only a handful of facilities worldwide that have the capability and access to sufficient core material to perform the process.
Take that, Putin!!!
Now I get where the idea that the Russian military is going to run out of chips comes from. Except Russia has 23 domestic chip makers, making everything the military might want. The story was a projection.
That's new how? Apple makes everything in China and Google etc don't even make much of anything at all. About the only tech companies making stuff in America are Intel, SpaceX, Tesla and a few others. The rest of them would much rather the Chinese made it for them.
China’s upcoming reunification will turn out to be a blessing in disguise for us.
Losing the carriers is going to suck, though.
What the NYT info does not provide is,
Davis-Bacon makes it illegal for the federal government to award contracts to companies unless they pay wages determined by a government body, the Wage and Hour Division. The Wage and hour Division uses the imprecise method of surveying to calculative wage rates– audits have found a 100% error rate when comparing the Wage and Hour Divisions’ calculations to a statistical analysis of an areas wages. Usually, Davis-Bacon inflates wages for construction jobs raising the price tag for such projects. . - https://www.atr.org/davis-bacon-act-undermines-democrats-stimulus-a3937/
WASHINGTON – Today on the floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed the political provisions inserted by Senate Democrats into the Endless Frontier Act that are jeopardizing the funding for his widely-supported Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s remarks are below, and video can be found here.
“The strong support for this legislation on a bipartisan basis shows that this is a priority for a majority of the members of this body. There's no reason these funding programs shouldn't be bipartisan, too.”
“And we're already seeing divisions about provisions related to the payment of prevailing wage, so-called Davis-Bacon provisions, which is frankly dividing us, which is a moot issue given the current wages of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing companies. It's a non-issue for them, yet some of our Democratic colleagues decided to insert this divisive issue in this underlying Endless Frontier bill.” - https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/content/news/cornyn-controversial-wage-provision-jeopardizing-semiconductor-funding
Putin, right?
What about zippers? I remember a few years back, there was a big stink about how we won’t be able to clothe our soldiers if the overseas suppliers were to be cut off.
The "core material" from which neon is refined is called "air," isn't it?
Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha!!!
The Russians are working to get a 90nm plant up and running (meaning what? Pilot production?) by the end of this year.
VERY roughly speaking, 90nm / 5nm = 18, 18 squared = 324, then use discount factor to bring that to 250…
…so let's say for every 1 logic or memory cell in the Russian 90nm chip, the TSMC 5nm chip can have 250.
Current US leading edge is Global Foundries 12nm, or Intel ~9nm (measurements get hard to compare), so we're running a four-to-one disadvantage compared to TSMC. At least we can produce those chips in huge volume.
Oh, yeah: thanks to Trump, we'll get a TSMC 5nm plant in Arizona running in a few years.
On a related note, the US imports 29% of the enriched Uranium for nuclear power plants (which supply 20% of all electricity in the USA) - FROM RUSSIA
Exactly what kind of chips are needed for a hypersonic missile?
According to wiki, it is. The problem therefor isn’t finding the source material (air), the problem is having a plant to do the separation. We have plenty of liquid nitrogen production in America; LN2 is dirt cheap. Leaves me curious as to what’s involved in adding neon separation capability to an existing nitrogen separation plant.
Not that long ago this would never have been allowed by he military. Design standards and source restrictions have been relaxed like everything else in todays military. One by one, US companies offshored manufacturing and before long there were no domestic sources and the military just said oh, what the hell, China’s our friend…
Not to mention all those stolen dishwashers being used for spare parts...😀
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