Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151B
This is not just some pork-barrel politics of bribing a company to stay in a given country.  S Korea will view this similarly to Taiwan - their chip fabs are <i>existential</i> to their country and state.<p>The USA is becoming more isolationist - it is nearly oil-independent, so it's signalling pulling out of the middle east (deals with Iran etc).<p>But it is not silicon-independent.<p>So S Korea and Taiwan are totally dependent on massive US troop deployments (25,000 !! US troops by the DMZ, a whole fleet patrolling the straits by Taiwan).<p>Ensuring chips flow in their country is a matter of national security - so the price is probably low.