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It’s kinda funny - half the parts on my boards are TI, but the Sherman fab only does rad-hardened components. It’s cheaper to ship me components from halfway around the world than it is to run a 120mm process node in north america.

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Yeah, because the demand for parts in the US is a rounding error! Build that fab in the US and 95% of its output will need to be shipped to China, because that's where all the mass manufacturing happens.

TSMC is already building a huge fab in Arizona.

But we're talking 100,000s of different parts that can be soddered on a board. That's not one factory.

If we were serious about domestic Manufacturing we'd both be doing massive automation and open borders with Latin America. You need the massive inflow of temporarily cheaper labor.

Automation picks up up as immigrants run out.

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