Korea unveils plan to build $472B dollar mega chip cluster

Also with nuclear power to maintain stability during operation.

This is quite forward looking, I just hope they can find the workers to fill the high tech roles.

> “by 2047”.

That’s the key line.

Not dismissing the massive (promised) investment.

But when you break it down per year to be $20B, it begins to make more sense.

>build 16 new fabs, creating more than 3 million jobs,

3 milion, wow, feels like a lot.

Also, if you had an opportunity to read Chip War, then is feels like a history is repeating itself - again gov-private funds want to meet eachother and disrupt semico industry

That’s 5.7% of the South Korean population.

Scaling to US-terms it would 18 million people or the entire employed population of California.

Another reference point, at its peak Apollo employed about 400k