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Re:Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production by lostlogin on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:29PM (#27122423)
> Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft had 526 billion dollars between the four of them in cash reserves.

Presumably they would cooperate and do something about it if they saw the current situation as too risky?

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Re:Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production by jedberg on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:53PM (#27122691)
They are doing something -- forming a lobby group to get the government to pay for it. That's much cheaper than actually paying for it themselves.
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Re:Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production by TakuYam on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:22PM (#27123018)
It also gets the actual foundry a pretty sharp knife to cut through the pesky red tape/law when they do start looking for prospective sites.
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