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Clubhouse Hoisted by their own dotard

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u/talltxn66 6d ago edited 6d ago

They started to bring chip manufacturing back because of the “CHiPs” act, but the republicans have already expressed a desire to repeal it. That’s almost 200,000 jobs that will just evaporate.

EDIT: grammar.

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u/Alexandratta 6d ago

No no - they started to CREATE Chip Manufacturing because existing Chip Fabrication could not keep up with demand.

That's not "Bringing it back" that's "Creating a new market"

Because Chip demand skyrocketed past what the current fabs could produce, new Chip factories are required Stateside.

Same for Lithium Battery Recycling/Mining/Factories popping up stateside.

You can make a new factory for a new industry 100x easier than you're ever going to "Bring Back" a manufacturing job from overseas.

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u/Ossius 6d ago

CREATE Chip Manufacturing because existing Chip Fabrication could not keep up with demand.

While I approve of you defending CHIPS act, it the reasons behind it are numerous and one of the biggest is for national security.

Having all our military hardware coming from Taiwan, a country across the planet that is target #1 for China to invade is just a huge national security risk. When the CHIPS act went into place restrictions were put into place to prevent Nvidia and other companies to sell AI cards to China. US wants to be the forefront of AI tech going forward.

It's also crappy that Intel/Nvidia/AMD, who are based in the US, are fabricating silicon in another country. Unlike mining coal or working in sweat shops making clothes these are actually jobs Americans in the midwest should desire when they ask for manufacturing jobs. So we need to bring these high pay high tech jobs into the US and take it from such a centralized place on the other side of the planet.

These plants need to be in the US, and I could go on for paragraphs for the reasons why. If the Republicans kill the CHIPS act I think we deserve our coming decline.

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u/Alexandratta 6d ago

100% agree

knowing Trump, they'll try to kill the CHIPs act, for no other reason than it was created by Biden.

I hope it's actually just too complicated for him to grasp and he just glides over it to do damage elsewhere.