SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night

Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by CalChris on Monday August 02, 2021 @08:34PM (#28044460)

The point wasn't just about SpaceX. "A whole industry bootstrapping itself to make semi-conductors doubling every 18 months". That semiconductor manufacturing industry is largely overseas and has been for awhile.

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by throwthere on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:03PM (#28044960)

I don't quite follow you here. Sure, lots of (non-Intel) semi-manufacturing happens outside the US in 2021. But when the industry built itself, a huge portion was in the... USA. Just like the space industry.

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by dnautics on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:11PM (#28044999)

and is, oddly enough, coming back to the US. There's a semiconductor fab opening in Austin courtesy of Samsung, and a semi fab in arizona courtesy of TSMC. I guess they are taking advantage of labor and technical expertise due to intel's chandler site?

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by throw0101a on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @07:07AM (#28047801)

> I guess they are taking advantage of labor and technical expertise due to intel's chandler site?

Or geopolitical concerns.

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by dnautics on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:06PM (#28056761)

Well yeah but there are 50 United States, they picked that one.

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