America wants to make its own chips again. Is that a good idea?
are on the table as a potential investment to secure the country's semiconductor sovereignty.
Insider spoke to several industry experts to explore the key issues that could determine the shape and success of current efforts to revamp US chip production. But why not have those third-party fabs on American soil, providing jobs to American workers? In fact, TSMC committed last year to spend $12 billion on a chip fab in Arizona, and it plans toChipmaking factories pay well, but employ fewer workers than other manufacturing plants."We've lost a lot of our chip manufacturing to other countries," Glenn O'Donnell, an analyst at industry research firm Forrester said.
The biggest near term problem might be filling the jobs. Semiconductor processing talent is scarce, analysts say, which means the US will have to build up university systems to train people in the jobs they need.
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