Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production

From the cultural left, if you believe that nationalism is immoral and everyone is a global citizen with nation-states being obsolete and even illegetimate ideas, you can't expect someone to have a sense of loyalty to his fellow citizens and not outsource. After all, why deny good jobs to the poor in other countries who benefit from them? Isn't it bigoted for a company to want to keep jobs in America? So that's why the left is strangely silent on these trade deficits, and attacks anyone who raises concerns about them as "nativist".

On the economic right, if you believe that profit maximizing behavior leads to pareto-maximizing outcomes, why would you interfere with a company that decides to boost profits by outsourcing?

It is the cultural right, economic left that remains shaking their heads at what are obviously foolish, self-destructive policies, but they are generally locked out of power in this country, and so the national firesale continues.

These companies move manufacturing overseas because they don't want to pay family members/neighbors a decent wage, or other business incentives like lax polution standards.

Now they want struggling Americas to build them a new cozy home in the country they abandoned. (You know what I mean by abandoned. The last thing the wealthy boys will ever do is move these wealthy executives to these cheaper countries completely.)

I'm at the point---go ahead and give them billions. Give them land. Take off any tariffs. Yes--a complete 180 from my opening sentence.

I feel computer chips are very important, and we do need factories here.

It seems like every few years a big prospering industry takes tax payer money. I'm always hoping they might show a bit of gratitude, but no. We bailed out "big stupid banks" (quote by Jamie Diamond), and the banks just turned around raised fees for everything.

I don't want a lot. Just some compassion with prices. If you sell drugs (Pharmacutical jab) to another counties at a huge discount; give poor/middle class Americas the same deal? Johnson & Johnson were the only drug company that didn't take millions in grants for Covid research. You would think by taking millions in gifts, the manufactoring information would be freely available to any American? (I am so glad they found a vaccine. I am still angry over my prescription price dole out each month.)

Oh yea, I'm not one sided. I felt AOC, and others, took demands to far with Amazon a few years ago.

It's almost like when we do get a say in a private business decision, we go overboard? We are so used to big businesses stepping on us, we over demand?

But yea, I'm completely disenfranchised. Give them money, and incentives.

It will be interesting to see what our inflation rate will be in a few years.

I heard a big wig stock guy say today he is worrying the dollar might not be used as a bench mark in other countries in a few years if we don't stop spending like drunken sailors.

I'm all for spending when it benefits the poor, and middle class. It doesn't seem to ever trickle down.

The homeless encampments are just getting bigger in my county. I see too many frantic people filling up moving vans. Instead of happiness over the opening, I'm seeing a lot of misplaced anger when I go out.

(Sorry about rambling.)

EDA tools require a ton of multidisciplinary knowledge. A computer scientist can write a compiler. An EDA tool requires that along with EE, physics, and mathematicians.

TSMC announced the Arizona fab in May of 2020. They estimate it will be at volume production by 2024. The challenge is that it's not just building the fab, but also the lead times for all of the equipment involved, getting the specialists in to install+calibrate, then doing some initial runs to work out issues before going to volume production.