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It's actually not totally true. There are tons of pcb fabs in NA. But it's a lot cheaper in China. R&D costs are just more expensive here or it takes longer vs
by antoniuschan99 9y ago
It's actually not totally true. There are tons of pcb fabs in NA. But it's a lot cheaper in China.
R&D costs are just more expensive here or it takes longer vs in Shenzen.
3d printing has also drastically reduced time to production as you can iterate the design during development.
- foepys 9y agoTesla has just found out that producing 100 cars a week is absolutely different than producing 5,000 cars a week. The same applies to every other product. A few PCB fans will not have the expertise to build factories that output millions of PCBs a month.
- pm90 9y agoThis is interesting. Is the problem here a lack of skilled labor force to do so? I'm wondering what prevents the US from having vocational programs to teach American workers those skills and kickstart that kind of manufacturing again.