TSMC Gets $11.6B in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs

Re:TSMC Gets $11.6B in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs by jellicle on Monday April 08, 2024 @08:39AM (#39969087)

The USA - the most powerful and richest country in the world - could ... just ... build it.

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Re:TSMC Gets $11.6B in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs by ecshafer on Monday April 08, 2024 @08:42AM (#39969116)

The US really doesn't do things directly like that, at least not in the last 50 years. Maybe you could point to this and say its wrong, but going through a contractor or company is the way the government typically operates.

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Re:TSMC Gets $11.6B in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs by PierceJoy on Monday April 08, 2024 @09:05AM (#39969320)

Isn’t that effectively what they’re doing? They’re using their riches to pay the people with the necessary institutional knowledge to build it in the USA.

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Re:TSMC Gets $11.6B in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs by analognoise on Monday April 08, 2024 @09:11AM (#39969364)

I like this idea and think we should get back into federally building things too.

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