TSMC delays US chip fab opening, says US talent is insufficient
I don’t think many of the comments here understand the changes to the global order.
It’s a national security risk not to do whatever is necessary to diversify and repatriate fabs in order to ensure uninterruptible production.<p>Of <i>course</i> there isn’t enough talent in chip manufacturing in a country that has been <i>outsourcing their chip production for decades</i>. This is just the maneuvering to get the coverage required to diversify supply, which must navigate both trade agreements and labor laws (like h1b).<p>But it <i>must be done</i> — and quickly — or there will be great risk to advanced technology hardware that could be catastrophic.<p>There is a HUGE push to ramp domestic US capabilities right now, from the liquid gas powered factories of Germany to the chip companies of Taiwan and other Asian countries. No other country is as self-contained from a food and energy perspective or nearly as defensible as the US and as we move to a multipolar world these kinds of moves are inevitable — and coming from the highest authorities in the land.