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Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by swalsh on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:06AM (#41579250)
"US manufacturing is about to be reinvigorated"

Oh i'm going to be downvoted into oblivion for this one.... but I think this is a win we can give to Trump. It was a hard focus of his, I think he put the right people in place to do it, and I think time is going to prove he was right to do it.

I didn't vote for him in 2016, but I think it's important to acknowledge it.

Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by erellsworth on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:11AM (#41579298)
This is because of the CHIPS act. Other than Trump's constant whinging about China, he didn't have anything to do with this.
Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by swalsh on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:15AM (#41579337)
I understand, but I was commenting specifically around the comment "US Manufacturing is reinvigorating" which it is, and which is more general than chips.

I think when the Trump admin renegotiated trade policies (and I'll given Biden credit for keeping them) the economic incentives were rebalanced. I think the result is complex/low volume manufacturing is starting to return to the US, and simple high volume manufacturing is moving to Mexico (which we have a very good relationship with... i'll discredit Trump for being so stupidly aggressive with them in the first few months of his administration though)