Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC
by mywittyname on Thursday September 19, 2024 @11:24AM
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> Care to share any of the reasons?
Governments being laser focused on building a specific domestic industry and winning. I.e., as you point out, Samsung. It's hard to win a battle where an entire country has decided to push to become the best in the world in one field.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung
Samsung is also very closely tied to the Korean government.
>I think if you start to deep dive into the industries that left, you'll find the reasons were often more complicated than simple labor costs
Care to share any of the reasons?
Here are reasons that I know about; EPA regulations, OSHA regulations, their supply base relocating.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-ama...
Don't get me wrong though, we shouldn't roll back our regulations but we should however ensure that what we buy is manufactured in that same conditions that we would demand at home.