alt Hacker Newsits not that the USA can't produce semi-conductors. Its that semi-conductor production, at TSMC's scale (both in terms of number of units, yield rates, and depth) currently requires highly skilled workers to work a lot of their hours to "baby sit" the wafer production.
Maybe there is a world where TSMC can hire enough skilled workers and optimize processes enabling people to go home at 5p, but that is not currently the case.
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lysace • yesterday at 9:45 PM
Yes. This. So, yeah, essentially fundamentally incompatible with the US economy.
The US is going to have to heavily subsidize the payroll of tens of thousands of very accomplished EEs/etc to make this work. By doing that they will also wreck the HW part of SV.
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We won't be seeing a TSMC plant in France anytime soon then.