Re: Why The US Doesn't Stand A Chance

Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

You don't START by building a state of the art nanometer fab.  You start
by making cheap opamps and TTL glue chips and once you have that down you
work up.

I think the USA never left that space. Texas Instruments has six
fabs in the USA, oldest built in 1966 and newest in 2022. That
said, they've also got one in China and last time I bought from
them (directly) the parcel came from Shanghai.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants

But you want to do that in a place where there is surplus hardware,
readily available supplies, and local expertise.  Attempts to start at the
top invariably end in failure too.

Intel appear to have a lot of fabs in the USA already "at the top"
in terms of nm. But then we keep hearing that they're about to go
broke, so maybe that's part of their problem (or it's what Trump's
about to change?).

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