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How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?

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Re: How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?

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Post by jagged-chisel »

bagacrap wrote: post #232
jagged-chisel wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But Texas is also the size of the four states to its east. Georgia is a coastal state. If you pull from Brunswick, GA and send it to just outside St. Louis, that distance is covered within the single state of Texas. That said, we don't pull sea water to supply water for industry - desalination is too costly.

Coastal states also get a lot of rain. We aren't talking about building fabs way out in Abilene are we?

Georgia’s rain comes in from the west. Sometimes its southwest. The only time it comes from its coast is when a hurricane lands nearby.

Some other commenter was talking about building fabs in the desert. I think we’re certainly in hypothetical territory.

My point was that the “coastal state” comment doesn’t explain how that magically make clean water plentiful.

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Post by vel0city »

sgarland wrote: post #244
vel0city wrote: post #113

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There's a lot to like and some to dislike, but I imagine that holds true just about anywhere. I've enjoyed my time living in North Texas, mostly from a cost of living and plenty of opportunity perspective. I don't exactly make a massive income (probably about half of a similar salary to the valley) but with that I'm able to actually afford a decent house with a single income family and still save, have a commute of o…

> In reality Texas is about average when it comes to reliability Do you have a source for this? Anecdotally, I felt the need to buy a generator when I lived north of Austin, because outages were frequent enough that it seemed warranted. Since moving to North Carolina (just north of Charlotte), I’ve had exactly one outage in a year, and that was on a mild day, just had some equipment failure. Never once here have I re…

https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2021...

Here they rank it 30/50 in reliability and performance metrics.

If we're sharing anecdotes, I've never lost power for more than a few seconds in the past decade or so, and before that it was pretty much only because of hurricanes or tornadoes in the area.

Re: How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?

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Post by LudwigNagasena »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #250
LudwigNagasena wrote: post #221

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If there is no such law in Texas, then surely detaining random people who are not white enough and putting them in jail would be a significant topic of discussion rather than an offhand comment on HN. 40% of Texas are Hispanic — a demographic that would be under the most suspicion. That is a lot of people in jail for no reason and without any legal reasons. The whole state would probably get bankrupt after a few laws…

I was tempted to reply, "you're not from around here, are you?" but that's probably a bit too snarky. There are only four states that require you have an ID during a police stop and Texas is not one of them. Obviously if you're driving, a driver's license is required. But for a random stop walking down the road? Nope, Texas does not require that you have ID. To the rest of your post: I honestly don't know where to st…

Let’s assume all of that is true. How come that your media feeds me stuff about “it’s a MAGA country” cases that turn out to be hoaxes or “it’s okay to be white” signs at college campuses instead of citizens being unlawfully detained so often it is a legitimate threat to half of the state’s population?

That sounds like a massive conspiracy that all media (left, liberal, conservative) are part of.

Re: How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?

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Post by sleepybrett »

throwaway4good wrote: post #144
sleepybrett wrote: post #90

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I mean do you not have to hedge again china just landing troops on taiwan? I think the pandemic chip shortages threw into sharp relief that we are totally dependent on imports (and for higher end chips on taiwanese imports almost exclusively). If china decides to blockage or invade Taiwan it would be cataclysmic.

PRC/ROC conflict has been dormant for 70 years - maybe don’t stir it up?

uh, hate to tell you dude...

Regardless outsourcing all manufacture of one of the most critical resources we depend on to a tiny island nation halfway around the world is bad news.

Re: How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

LudwigNagasena wrote: post #253
HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was tempted to reply, "you're not from around here, are you?" but that's probably a bit too snarky. There are only four states that require you have an ID during a police stop and Texas is not one of them. Obviously if you're driving, a driver's license is required. But for a random stop walking down the road? Nope, Texas does not require that you have ID. To the rest of your post: I honestly don't know where to st…

Let’s assume all of that is true. How come that your media feeds me stuff about “it’s a MAGA country” cases that turn out to be hoaxes or “it’s okay to be white” signs at college campuses instead of citizens being unlawfully detained so often it is a legitimate threat to half of the state’s population? That sounds like a massive conspiracy that all media (left, liberal, conservative) are part of.

Because none of what I said is newsworthy.

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Post by genmud »

isykt wrote: post #214
Beached wrote: post #123

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wish for and expect are two different things. I wish the war in Ukraine would end tomorrow, I don't expect it will though. while China invading Taiwan is not a guarantee, it is certainly highly probable. this risk should be taken into account by the us government

Why do you think it’s highly probable?

Do you not keep track of current events?

Chinas activities in the South China Sea, the fact they openly say they will integrate Taiwan, by force if necessary and unemployment being 20-30% for young people are just a few red flags.

Re: How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?

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Post by sgarland »

vel0city wrote: post #252
sgarland wrote: post #244

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> In reality Texas is about average when it comes to reliability Do you have a source for this? Anecdotally, I felt the need to buy a generator when I lived north of Austin, because outages were frequent enough that it seemed warranted. Since moving to North Carolina (just north of Charlotte), I’ve had exactly one outage in a year, and that was on a mild day, just had some equipment failure. Never once here have I re…

https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2021... Here they rank it 30/50 in reliability and performance metrics. If we're sharing anecdotes, I've never lost power for more than a few seconds in the past decade or so, and before that it was pretty much only because of hurricanes or tornadoes in the area.

FWIW that's a couple of years old. I'll be interested to see the EIA data for 2022 once they finalize it [0].

[0]: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/

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