The US government is discouraging, but not yet forbidding, buying from certain Chinese manufacturers. But following other hardware manufacturers and making those deals is a risky move for Apple and a potentially riskier move for IT buyers.
Yeah especially when you’re starting from nothing. Chemicals needed to produce chips have multiple suppliers within a small geographic area in Taiwan. There are none in the US. Whelp, guess you need to either figure out how to transport some incredibly dangerous materials across an ocean or setup production of that chemical locally.
So it will take even longer for a chip fab to be online in the US than it would take in Taiwan.
It’s still being built, I think they had one of the planned production lines close to complete?
Chip fabs take like 10-15 years to get going
Yeah especially when you’re starting from nothing. Chemicals needed to produce chips have multiple suppliers within a small geographic area in Taiwan. There are none in the US. Whelp, guess you need to either figure out how to transport some incredibly dangerous materials across an ocean or setup production of that chemical locally.
So it will take even longer for a chip fab to be online in the US than it would take in Taiwan.