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Re:Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US by kds3 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @06:13PM (#22070106)
So, at first we encouraged military companies mergers to save our money (back from 1980s?) and left only with a few monopolies, then suddenly there is only one company that can make our military chips? What a surprise! And now we have to pay premium to have them made on our soil? Same situation with non-military monopolies and near-monopolies.
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Re:Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US by vonmoltke on Thursday January 16, 2020 @07:08PM (#22070503)
It was the 90s, and the only major defense contractor that had large fabs for digital chips was TI. The consolidation had little effect on where the chips are made.
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