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thinkingtoiletyesterday at 9:38 PM1 replyview on HN

Others need to follow. It's strange that we don't view the manufacturing of advanced electronics as a matter of national security.


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mattnewtonyesterday at 10:03 PM

The government is slowly waking up to how important chips are and how far behind domestic sources have fallen from foreign (mostly Chinese and Taiwanese) sources. That's what the 2022 CHIPS act was about.

These things just take a lot of time, there are tremendous headwinds to fight, and the US government + US media increasingly seems unable to see through projects past the next election cycle.

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