• TWeaK
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    5 months ago

    Plus, both companies have been experiencing local talent shortages.

    It’s not that there is a shortage of talent in the US, it’s that they want to pay half as much as the US industry.

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      5 months ago

      Entire local economies are run around chip manufacturing in South Korea and Taiwan. Plus it’s seen as a matter of national security, the US is more likely to defend and support them if they have these valuable chip plants.

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        5 months ago

        Be interesting to see the geopolitical ramifications of the US bringing semiconductor plants online.

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          5 months ago

          I predict if the US can make better chips than Taiwan and can fulfill domestic production itself, Taiwan will shift from an asset to a burden and the US would stop caring nearly as much. The rhetoric will stay approximately the same, but I doubt the US would go to war at that point for Taiwan.