Re:Apple, ARM, and Intel
by gumby on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:15PM
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> IMO your last statement is kind of ridiculous. Intel is literally the only company that does high volume wafer manufacturing in the US at anything approaching leading edge geometries. Are there any other American companies the government could even realistically support?
Well yes, but... you could hire a bunch of foreigners to run things, as that's where the current experience mostly is, as you point out. But that experience includes use of semi fab equipment, essentially all of which is built in the USA.
That said, I'm not a fan of industrial policy; not sure what results were generated by the megabucks spent on Sematech (and I worked for Sematech sibling/neighbor MCC in its day too).
Well yes, but... you could hire a bunch of foreigners to run things, as that's where the current experience mostly is, as you point out. But that experience includes use of semi fab equipment, essentially all of which is built in the USA.
That said, I'm not a fan of industrial policy; not sure what results were generated by the megabucks spent on Sematech (and I worked for Sematech sibling/neighbor MCC in its day too).