Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
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Re: Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
#2This was kind of expected due to the shutdowns required by most countries during the chaos of COVID. Of course we need our infrastructure to be more robust, but no use crying over spilt milk.
Re: Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
#3This was kind of expected due to the shutdowns required by most countries during the chaos of COVID. Of course we need our infrastructure to be more robust, but no use crying over spilt milk.
There have been calls for some time to treat semiconductor manufacturing as in the interest of national security. The funding and policy isn't onerous to do so, and "never let a crisis go to waste." Something similar was already done for rare earths [1].
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=rare+earth+us+national+secur...
Re: Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
#4How about you spend some of that cash hoard and do it yourself? I would rather the government start dealing with cyber attacks because that's going to affect the east coast something fierce if this crap keeps going.
If the government gives money then it better talk to these companies about where their items are produced.
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#5If the US government subsidizes them they should also make their services cheaper for US companies.
Hah - one can hope. But really, is there a chance that could happen? I'm not sure if there's any precedent.
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#6Dupe from earlier today:
Re: Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
#71. Set up off shore tax havens to not pay tax
2. Lobby government for subsidies
3. Laugh all the way to the off shore bank
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#8 > Some of the world’s biggest chip buyers, including Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc’s Google, are joining top chip-makers such as Intel Corp
> to create a new lobbying group to press for government chip manufacturing subsidies
None of those companies need subsidies.
Re: Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
#9Couldn't this be a positive long term benefit of Corona? A push back against globalisation and more domestic production in each region of the world.
Re: Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
#10> Intel Corp to create a new lobbying group to press for government chip manufacturing subsidies.
Assholes. They don't need subsidies to produce chips competitively in America (since they already do) and Intel is one of the reasons the industry is so reliant on TSMC.
I'd much rather see this money go to founding a domestic TSMC competitor than to Intel. Or even to TSMC to have them build plants in North America.
Fabless design is here to stay, so it behooves the country (and world) to have enough designless fabricators to ensure sufficient manufacturing capacity.