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Re:US Gov announces $8.5B preliminary CHIPS investment agree... by bombcar on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @03:50PM (#39771221)
Is it that the work is impossibly skilled or that there’s only so much demand to go around and the capital costs to build a state of the art fab is just astronomically high?
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Re:US Gov announces $8.5B preliminary CHIPS investment agree... by count on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:02PM (#39783697)
I think it's a lot of both.

Like fighter jets - they're very, very hard to fly and also expensive to build and maintain.

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