Advanced chipmakers will get new subsidies to design and mfg in the states?

[Dave Hess]

Anybody know what Samsung is making in RoundRock, TX ?
NXP in Austin ?

Are they making chips ?

I drove by there a few months ago.

 

[PandaBear]

Intel is building a plant near Columbus, Ohio. The Intel CEO is expecting Ohio to be the largest single silicon manufacturing location in the world.

A specialty uniform company that specializes in cleanroom laundry already set up a 68K SF 35 million dollar facility for when Ohio Intel needs their service.

The downfall is housing in and around Columbus is climbing faster than the national average because of our strong local economy and thousands of high income jobs that are coming.

Still way cheaper than the Bay Area.

 

[PandaBear]

The problem in the industry is, they pay too low. The best talent in Taiwan works for TSMC and they pay the best in the entire country for tech, not software. In the US investors like low risk high return and that means usually software. They don't like the high risk stuff in hardware especially in the FAB and chips. Many companies went out of business because they made a bad move, and that's why they are no longer in the US and they just let someone else do the manufacturing for whoever wins the market.

Intel was the last man standing and then the MBAs and accountants decided to stop investing (and start paying back the investors), so in a way they got lazy and lost.