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Manufacturing is fast evolving with the influence of high tech automation. As business relations gets too much to manage and brings more and more risks (trade w
by reacharavindh 8y ago
Manufacturing is fast evolving with the influence of high tech automation. As business relations gets too much to manage and brings more and more risks (trade war with china), I'd imagine companies will start investing in automated manufacturing plants stateside. Perhaps, the many of the components would still come from cheaper parts of the world, but I can see custom microprocessors being manufactured in the west, and say iPhones's body machined in the US, parts assembled into the enclosures at the US - by robots anyway.
- HeadsUpHigh 8y ago>I can see custom microprocessors being manufactured in the west This would really depend on the node used. For anything modern I think the only company left in the west that can do it is intel and I don't know how much of a market friendly option they are. Maybe with a lot of investment there could be some 28nm fabs in a few years which would then take forever to get a ROI, at which point it's anyone's guess what kind of technology will be used for chip manufacturing.